Cryptomorphic

Quick meaning: Cryptomorphic is an adjective meaning Having a form that obscures or masks the underlying meaning or purpose.

Meaning

Having a form that obscures or masks the underlying meaning or purpose.

More Meanings

1. (earth science) Found or occurring below the soil layer.
2. (crystallography) Composed of minerals that are not expressed in their crystalline form.
3. (mathematics) Two objects, especially systems of axioms or semantics for them, are called cryptomorphic if they are equivalent (possibly in some informal sense) but not obviously equivalent.
4. (genetics) Having a cryptic structure in which the ultimate active product is carried by the precursorial protein rather than the protein actually encoded by the gene.

Example Sentences

Hence, among the lower vertebrates, the cistron may be diplomorphic rather than cryptomorphic.

Find them, and prove that an operation satisfying them provides another cryptomorphic version of topology 8.

Three types of genes, namely, immunoglobulin genes, dimorphic genes and cryptomorphic genes, are classified as complex genes.

I can imagine, for example, constructing the argument that Poe's Purloined Letter is the locus classicus for all cryptomorphic revelations.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include homeomorphous, diffeomorphic, semicomputable, bimeromorphic, cofree, hypoplactic.

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