Morph

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Morph is from the Greek morphe meaning shape or form. For example, the word metamorphosis means a change in shape or form. Common uses of the term include:

Fiction
  • Morph (comics), an X-Men character of Marvel comics
  • Morph (character), an animated plasticine character created by Tony Hart
  • Morph (Disney character), a character in the 2002 Disney movie Treasure Planet
Biology
  • Morph (zoology), a visual or behavioural difference between organisms of distinct populations in a species
  • Muller's morphs, a classification scheme for genetic mutations
Technology
  • Morph (mobile phone), a concept mobile phone developed by the Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge
  • Gryphon Software Morph, a software program for morphing images (see below) by Gryphon Software
  • Morphic (software), user interface built out of graphical objects known as morphs
  • Morph (software), Fork of the p2p program eMule
  • Morph (Java), a Java framework for type and object graph conversion
Other uses
  • Morph, in linguistics, the vocal form of a morpheme
  • Morphism, an abstraction of a structure-preserving mapping between two mathematical structures
  • Morphing, in motion pictures and animations, a special effect that changes (morphs) one image into another through a seamless transition

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