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Definitions: Amorphous |
AmorphousAdjective1. Having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a shapeless mass of protoplasm". 2. Lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies. 3. Without real or apparent crystalline form; "an amorphous mineral"; "amorphous structure". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "amorphous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
Etymology: Amorphous \A*mor"phous\, adjective. [expression of Greek origin; 'a priv. form.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Chemistry | Term applied to substances which lack any regular atomic arrangement. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Said of a mineral or other substance that lacks crystalline structure, or whose internal arrangement is so irregular that there is no characteristic external form. Ant. crystalline b. The state of a solid lacking crystal structure, specif. lacking long-range order. c. A term formerly used to describe a body of rock occurring in acontinuous mass, without division into parts. CF:massive. (references) |
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Synonyms: AmorphousSynonyms: formless (adj), shapeless (adj), uncrystallised (adj), uncrystallized (adj), unstructured (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amorphism | Adjective: shapeless, amorphous, formless; unformed, unhewn, unfashioned, unshaped, unshapen; rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged. |
Unconformity | Heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal; asymmetric; adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous. |
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Economic History | Saudi Arabia | Saudi litigants have an advantage over foreign parties in almost any investment dispute because of their first-hand knowledge of Saudi law and culture and the relatively amorphous dispute settlement processes. (references) |
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| "Amorphous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.52% of the time. "Amorphous" is used about 209 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.52% | 208 | 21,075 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.48% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 209 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "amorphous": amorphous phosphorus ♦ amorphous shape ♦ Amorphous sulphur ♦ amorphous wax ♦ hydrogenated amorphous silicon ♦ Red or Amorphous. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "amorphous": quasi-amorphous. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
amorphous | 24 |
amorphous metal | 8 |
amorphous silicon | 7 |
amorphous silica | 6 |
amorphous solid | 5 |
amorphous core | 4 |
amorphous crystal | 4 |
amorphous carbon | 3 |
amorphous urates | 3 |
amorphous band | 2 |
amorphous androgynous | 2 |
amorphous hydrogenated physics silicon | 2 |
amorphous breast in microcalcification | 2 |
amorphous cell silicon solar | 2 |
amorphous calcium phosphate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "amorphous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | amorf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | amorf, jokristalor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لامتبلور, غير منظم (erratic, patchy, ragged, rough, unorganized), غير متبلور, بلا شكل. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | с неопределена форма, неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), неустановен (equivocal, irresolute, unadjusted, unestablished, unspecified, yeasty), некристален, неопределен (ambiguous, formless, inconclusive, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicit, infinitive, loose, neutral, nondescript, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, unidentified, vague), аморфен (formless, structureless), безформен (formless, lumpy, misshapen, nebulous, shapeless, unboiled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 定形. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | amorfní, chaotický (chaotic, disorganized, in chaos, messy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | amorf (noncrystalline, structureless, uncrystalline, vitreous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vormloos, amorf (noncrystalline, structureless, uncrystalline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | amorfa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | غیرمتبلور, غیرشفاف (Opaque), دارای ساختمان غیرمشخص , بی نظم (Chaotic), بی شکل (Formless), بدون تقسیم بندی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | amorfinen (noncrystalline, structureless, uncrystalline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | amorphe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | amorph (noncrystalline, structureless, uncrystalline, vitreous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άμορφος (noncrystalline, structureless, uncrystalline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חסר צור" (floppy, shapeless), 'לום (concealed, crude, hidden, inchoate, latent, mantle, raw, robe, wrapped in), טול צור". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | amorf (structureless), formátlan (formless, shapeless, unshapen), alaktalan (bulky, cramp, formless, misshapen, shapeless, structureless, unformed, unshapely, unshapen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | amorf, tak berbentuk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | amorfo (noncrystalline, structureless, uncrystalline, vitreous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 非晶質 , 無定形 (shapeless), アメリカ貘 (American sauce, americium, South American tapir). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひしょうしつ, むていけい (shapeless), アモルファス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 무조직. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jee-vorfagh, gyn jannoo (unaccomplished, undischarged, undone), gyn cummey (shapeless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amorphousay amorfo (dull, formless, massive investment, noncrystalline, shapeless, structureless, uncrystalline, vitreous). (various references) amorf (inform), inform (formless, ill-formed, inform, shapeless, unshapely). (various references) бесформенный (formless, indigested, malformed, shapeless, unformed, unshapely). (various references) amorfan, bezobličan (formless, shapeless). (various references) amorfo (noncrystalline, structureless, uncrystalline, vitreous). (various references) amorf (noncrystalline, structureless, uncrystalline), formlös (featureless, formless, shapeless, vague). (various references) amorf, biçimsiz (distorted, formless, ill shaped, misshapen, off form, out of trim, rambling, sesquipedalian, shapeless, thrawn, ugly, unformed, ungainly, unshapely), şekilsiz (formless, misshapen, off form, shapeless, unformed, unshapely). (various references) хаотичний (chaotic), неясний (abstruse, ambiguous, blear, blind, blurred, chancy, darkling, doubtful, dusk, faint, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, opaque, oracular, oraculous, recondite, shadowy, transcendental, unaccounted for, unclear, undistinguished, woolly, wooly), нечіткий (ambiguous, blurred, crabbed, cramped, illegible, nubilous, obscure), непевний (chancy, indefinite, nebulose, neutral, nondescript, nubilous, vapoury), аморфний (aptotic, formless), безформний (diffluent, formless, lumpish, shapeless, unformed), безладний (disorderly, dropping, excursive, harum scarum, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, hurly burly, ill disposed, indiscriminate, inordinate, meandering, messy, orderless, outward, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, rambling, scrappy, shapeless, topsy turvy, tumultuary). (various references) tính không có hình dạng nhất định (amorphism, amorphousness). (various references) amorffus, diffurf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "amorphous": amorphously, amorphousness, amorphousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Amorphous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amorpheus, amorphious, amorphos, amorphus, Asophus, emorphous, Morphou. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "amorphous" (pronounced umô"rfus) |
| 3 | -f u s | edifice, interoffice, office, preface, resurface, snafus, subsurface, surface, typhus. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-m-o-o-p-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: amorous, morphos, oompahs, prosoma, shampoo. | |
-3 letters: amours, humors, mohurs, morpho, morphs, oompah, oomphs, parous, pharos, porous, prahus, promos, ramous, sapour, upsoar. | |
-4 letters: amour, arums, harms, harps, hoars, homos, hoops, horas, hours, humor, humps, marsh, mohur, moors, moras, morph, muras, oomph, opahs, ouphs, poohs, pours, prahu, prams, praos, praus, proas, promo, proms, proso, pumas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-m-o-o-p-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: amorphously, photomurals, protohumans. | |
+3 letters: automorphism. | |
+4 letters: amorphousness, automorphisms, camphoraceous. | |
+5 letters: pneumatophores, pneumothoraces, pneumothoraxes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 6F 72 70 68 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- --- .-. .--. .... --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01101111 01110010 01110000 01101000 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m o r p h o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 006F 0072 0070 0068 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357981848274818785 |
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