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pseudomorphosis

pseudomorphosis

English

Noun

pseudomorphosis (plural pseudomorphoses)

  1. (chiefly mineralogy) A change of substance without any change in appearance; the formation of a pseudomorph.
    • 2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin 2013, page 279:
      The reliability of monolithic microprocessors and the fidelity of monolithic storage postponed the necessity for this pseudomorphosis far beyond what seemed possible in 1948.