Associations to the word «Allomorph»

Wiktionary

ALLOMORPH, noun. (chemistry) Any of the different crystalline forms of a substance.
ALLOMORPH, noun. (linguistics) Any of the different phonological representations of a morpheme.

Dictionary definition

ALLOMORPH, noun. Any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound; "calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite".
ALLOMORPH, noun. A variant phonological representation of a morpheme; "the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme".

Wise words

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche