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/ˌpɑliˈmɔɹfɪk/ · adjective
Relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms..
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.
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.
Polymorphic redefinition in C++ is achieved by the use of virtual functions.
A polymorphic call looks like a procedural call, but where a procedural call has only one possible target subroutine, a polymorphic call can result in the execution of one of several different subroutines.
The fact that polymorphic equilibrium is not a dynamic equilibrium is significant with respect to the random distribution of velocity of temperature agitation among the molecules.
Use polymorphic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Polymorphic means Relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms..
Common synonyms include multiform, protean, polymorphous.
Possible antonyms include monomorphic.
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.
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