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ANAMORPHOSIS

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Irregular inflected form: anamorphoses  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special mannerplay

Synonyms:

anamorphism; anamorphosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("anamorphosis" is a kind of...):

copy (a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changesplay

Synonyms:

anamorphism; anamorphosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("anamorphosis" is a kind of...):

evolution; organic evolution; phylogenesis; phylogeny ((biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms)

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