any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound.
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Linguistics. one of the alternate contextually determined phonological shapes of a morpheme, as en in oxen,which is an allomorph of the English plural morpheme. Compare morph.
linguistics any of the phonological representations of a single morpheme. For example, the final (s) and (z) sounds of bets and beds are allomorphs of the English noun-plural morpheme
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any of two or more different crystalline forms of a chemical compound, such as a mineral
a collection of maps of a certain area indicating the distribution of various phonological, morphological, lexical, or other features of the dialects of that area
a unit within a language, such as a word or base; vocabulary item
the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language
to differ in a way that can serve to distinguish meanings: The sounds (p) and (b) contrast in the words ?pin? and ?bin?
the cultural correlate, reference, or denotation of an expression separate from linguistic content
the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as for illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech