polymorphic

Adjective
Synonyms: polymorphous

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (3)

  1. relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms“polymorphous crystallization”Synonyms: polymorphous
  2. relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population“a polymorphic species”Synonyms: polymorphous
  3. having or occurring in several distinct forms“man is both polymorphic and polytypic”“a polymorphous god”Synonyms: polymorphous
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Polymorphic \Pol`y*mor"phic\, a. Polymorphous. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

polymorphism polymorphic

<theory, programming> The ability to leave parts of a type in a typed language unspecified. The term has three distinct uses:

* Parametric polymorphism refers to the use of type variables in a strongly typed language.

* Overloading, sometimes called ad-hoc polymorphism, means using the same syntax for different types.

* object-oriented polymorphism allows a variable to refer to objects whose class is not known at compile time.

(2014-01-05)

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