• Polymorphic

    Pronunciation

    • US IPA: /ËŒpÉ‘liˈmÉ”rfɪk/
    • Rhymes: -ɔː(r)fɪk

    Adjective

    polymorphic
    1. relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms
      • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of SpeciesI refer to those genera which have sometimes been called "protean" or "polymorphic," in which the species present an inordinate amount of variation; and hardly two naturalists can agree which forms to rank as species and which as varieties.
      • 1897, Grant Allen, An African MillionaireDr. Beddersley came -- a dapper little man, with pent-house eyebrows, and keen, small eyes, whom I suspected at sight of being Colonel Clay himself in another of his clever polymorphic embodiments.
      • 1996, Rod Ellis, Data abstraction and program designPolymorphic redefinition in C++ is achieved by the use of virtual functions.
    2. (programming, of a function) able to take multiple data types

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