Meaning of cryptomorphic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Two objects, especially systems of axioms or semantics for them, are called cryptomorphic if they are equivalent (possibly in some informal sense) but not obviously equivalent.
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2. Having a form that obscures or masks the underlying meaning or purpose.
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3. Having a cryptic structure in which the ultimate active product is carried by the precursorial protein rather than the protein actually encoded by the gene.
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4. Found or occurring below the soil layer.
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5. Composed of minerals that are not expressed in their crystalline form.
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Examples

“Find them, and prove that an operation satisfying them provides another cryptomorphic version of topology 8.”

“Some degree of light may perhaps be thrown on the cryptomorphic condition of bodies in combination, by our knowledge of the typical conditions of natural bodies generally, when uncombined.”

“But there are two drawings and a painting that will be shown to be of Cézanne père and that have not been recognized as such — because he is without the hat he wears in the works mentioned above — as well as cryptomorphic portraits that are also hatless, all done, we may be sure, from memory.”

“I can imagine, for example, constructing the argument that Poe's Purloined Letter is the locus classicus for all cryptomorphic revelations.”

“I call this image cryptomorphic because it hides as it reveals, unlike the skull in Holbein's “Ambassadors”; that is, this smeared film image does not reveal a hidden image behind the smear.”

“Three types of genes, namely, immunoglobulin genes, dimorphic genes and cryptomorphic genes, are classified as complex genes.”

“Hence, among the lower vertebrates, the cistron may be diplomorphic rather than cryptomorphic.”

“Either the cryptomorphic silica replaced the microcrystalline dolomite, followed by mineralization or the reverse, in the order of silicification, is possible.”

“Cryptomorphic biological soil crusts are the most difficult to observe and occur to a lesser known extent within the Planning Area .”

“The vertical flow of the substance may scatter and create dissipative cryptomorphic structures on the surface, which are poorly expressed in the relief.”

“The first group includes surface phenomena (i.e. exomorphic, or superficial phenomena), and the second group comprises underground phenomena (i.e. cryptomorphic, or subficial phenomena).”

“Both have 'cryptomorphic' types which are similar in composition but in which no felspar has crystallized.”

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