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noun
- The ability to assume different forms or shapes.
- (context, crystallography) The ability of a solid material to exist in more than one form or crystal structure; pleomorphism.
- (context, biology) The coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.
- (context, computer science) The feature of object-oriented programming that allows a method to have several definitions, depending on the types of the arguments it is called with.
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