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单词 homology
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homologyn.

/həʊˈmɒlədʒi/
Etymology: < late Latin homologia, < Greek ὁμολογία agreement, assent, < ὁμόλογος homologous adj. Compare French homologie.
Homologous quality or condition; sameness of relation; correspondence.
1. In general sense. (Before 19th cent. only in dictionaries.)
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun]
accordmentc1330
accorda1398
consonancya1398
unitya1398
accordancea1400
commoningc1400
convenience1413
correspondence1413
answeringc1425
conformityc1430
consonance1430
congruity1447
concordancec1450
consonantc1475
agreement1495
monochordc1500
conveniencya1513
agreeance1525
agreeableness1531
concinnity1531
congruence1533
harmony?1533
concent1563
tunableness1569
agreeing1575
answerableness1577
concert1578
consent1578
sympathy1578
concord1579
symphonia1579
correspondency1589
atone1595
coherence1597
respondence1598
symphony1598
sortance1600
coherency1603
respondency1603
symbolizing1605
coaptation1614
compositiona1616
sympathizing1632
comportance1648
compliance1649
syntax1649
concinneness1655
symmetry1655
homology1656
consistency1659
consentaneousness1660
consistence1670
comportment1675
harmoniousness1679
symbolism1722
congruousness1727
accordancy1790
sameness1790
consentaneity1798
consilience1840
chime1847
consensus1854
solidarity1874
synchromesh1966
concordancing1976
the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > correspondence, analogy, or parallelism
analogy1550
correspondency1598
parallel1599
correspondence1605
symbolization1607
corresponcy1621
homology1656
parallelism1656
analogicalness1731
analogousness1859
collaterality1872
parallelity1897
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Homology, an agreement.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Homology, proportion, Agreeableness.
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man I. ii. 59 We find in distinct languages striking homologies due to community of descent.
1875 O. W. Holmes Crime in Pages from Old Vol. (1891) 325 The plain law of homology, which declares that like must be compared with like.
2.
a. Biology. Correspondence in type of structure (of parts or organs); see homologous adj. 2 (Distinguished from analogy n. 8.) Also, that branch of Biology or Comparative Anatomy which deals with such correspondences. general homology, the relation of an organ or organism to the general type. lateral homology, the relation of corresponding parts on the two sides of the body. serial homology, the relation of corresponding parts forming a series in the same organism (e.g. legs, vertebræ, leaves). special homology, the correspondence of a part or organ in one organism with the homologous part in another (e.g. of a horse's ‘knee’ with the human wrist).
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > correspondence in structure
homology1835
homogen1870
homogeny1870
homoplasy1870
homoplasmy1874
homotypy1874
parhomology1888
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 525/2 The cephalic processes..have no real homology with the locomotive extremities of the Vertebrata.
1846 R. Owen in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 175 The correspondency of a part or organ..with a part or organ in a different animal..(i.e.) special homology.
1846 R. Owen in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 175 A higher relation of homology is that in which a part..stands to the fundamental or general type..(i.e.) general homology.
1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. ii. 499 The homologies of the skeleton imply a wide range of similarities.
1859 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 240 Homology and Embryology.
1871 H. Macmillan True Vine 99 From the leaf..all the floral organs are developed, and to it..all parts are reducible by homology.
1872 H. A. Nicholson Introd. Study Biol. 42 Lateral homology consists in the structural identity of the parts on the two sides of the body.
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 63 We distinguish, accordingly, physiological likeness, or Analogy, from morphological likeness, or Homology.
b. Pathology. Of a morbid growth: see homologous adj. 2b.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > abnormal or morbid tissue > homology
homology1871
1871 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (1873) 106 A knowledge of the homology or heterology of a growth.
1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. iii. 95 Tissues normal in themselves appear under the form of a tumour, sometimes in regions where this tissue normally exists, sometimes in places where it does not exist in the normal state of things. In the first case I speak of it as homology, in the second as heterology.
3. Chemistry. The relation of the compounds forming a homologous series: see homologous adj. 3.
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > organic compounds > [noun] > relation of compounds forming a homologous series
homology1876
1876 Johnson's New Universal Cycl. II. 979 Homology, a term expressing a principle in the chemistry of organic compounds..first introduced by the illustrious Gerhardt.
4. Geometry. The relation of two figures in the same plane, such that every point in each corresponds to a point in the other, and collinear points in one correspond to collinear points in the other; every straight line joining a pair of corresponding points passes through a fixed point called the centre of homology, and every pair of corresponding straight lines in the two figures intersect on a fixed straight line called the axis of homology.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [noun] > geometrical relation
congruity1656
symmetry1823
homography1859
homology1863
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > relationship between figures
perspective1857
homology1863
confocal1903
1863 G. Salmon Conic Sections (ed. 4) iv. 59 Two triangles are said to be homologous, when the intersections of the corresponding sides lie on the same right line called the axis of homology: prove that the lines joining the corresponding vertices meet in a point.
1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. 11 Two corresponding straight lines therefore always intersect on a fixed straight line, which we may call s; thus the given figures are in homology, O being the centre, and s the axis, of homology.
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