isomorphism

  1. Noun.  (biology) the similarity in form of organisms of different ancestry.
  2. Noun.  (algebra) A bijection ''f'' such that both ''f'' and its inverse ''f'' −1 are homomorphisms, that is, structure-preserving mappings.
  3. Noun.  (chemistry) the similarity in the crystal structures of similar chemical compounds.
  4. Noun.  (sociology) the similarity in the structure or processes of different organizations.
  5. Noun.  (computer science) a one-to-one correspondence between all the elements of two sets, e.g. the instances of two classes, or the records in two datasets.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.