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Webster 1913 Edition
Polymorphic
Polˊy-mor′phic
,Adj.
Polymorphous.
Definition 2024
polymorphic
polymorphic
English
Adjective
polymorphic (not comparable)
- relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms
- 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
- I refer to those genera which have sometimes been called "protean" or "polymorphic," in which the species present an inordinate amount of variation; and hardly two naturalists can agree which forms to rank as species and which as varieties.
- 1897, Grant Allen, An African Millionaire
- Dr. Beddersley came -- a dapper little man, with pent-house eyebrows, and keen, small eyes, whom I suspected at sight of being Colonel Clay himself in another of his clever polymorphic embodiments.
- 1996, Rod Ellis, Data abstraction and program design
- Polymorphic redefinition in C++ is achieved by the use of virtual functions.
- 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
- (programming, of a function) able to take multiple data types
Antonyms
Translations
relating to polymorphism
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