ALLOMERISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allomerism mean? 

• ALLOMERISM (noun)
  The noun ALLOMERISM has 1 sense:

1. (chemistry) variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form

  Familiarity information: ALLOMERISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLOMERISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(chemistry) variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

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

fluctuation; variation (an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Derivation:

allomerous (pertaining to allomerism)