Look up: Metamerism

1. Metamerism
   Division of the body along the anteroposterior axis into a serial succession of segments, each of which contains identical or similar representatives of all the organ systems of the body; primitively in arthropods, including, externally, a pair of appendages and, internally, a pair of nerve ganglia, a pair of nephridia, a pair of gonads, paired blood vessels and nerves, and a portion of the digestive and muscular systems.
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2. Metamerism
   An effect where a colour appears to be different in different lights. Metamerism is a fact of nature and paints are often mistakenly blamed when metamerism is really the cause. The reason is that different types of light render colour differently. For example, natural sunlight contains more blue lig...
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3. Metamerism
   The tendency of colour to change with the light source in which it's viewed. For example, two reds may appear to match under fluorescent light, but clash badly in the light of the sun.
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4. Metamerism
   Me·tam'er·ism noun 1. (Biol.) The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres. 2. (Chemistry) The state or quality of being metameric; also, the relation or condition of metameric compounds.
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5. metamerism
   <biology> The condition of developing body segments (such as in earthworms). ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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6. Metamerism
   • (n.) The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres. • (n.) The state or quality of being metameric; also, the relation or condition of metameric compounds.
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7. metamerism
   (from the article `colour`) ...the other by a combination of red and yellow pigments, match precisely in daylight, in the light of a tungsten lamp one may appear more reddish ...
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8. metamerism
   metamerism A situation in which there are many parts joined together.
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9. Metamerism
   In chemistry, metamerism is the character in certain compound bodies differing in chemical properties, of having the same chemical elements combined in the same proportion and with the same molecular weight; thus, aldehyde and oxide of ethylene have their elements in the same proportion and the same...
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10. metamerism
    Type: Term Pronunciation: me-tam′ĕr-izm Definitions: 1. A type of anatomic structure exhibiting serially homologous metameres; in primitive forms, such as the annelids, the metameres are almost alike in structure; in vertebrates, specialization in the cephalic region masks the underlying ...
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11. Metamerism
    (biology) In biology, `metamerism` is a linear series of body segments fundamentally similar in structure, though not all such structures are entirely alike in any single life form because some of them perform special functions.<ref name="Franklin-108">--> In animals, metameric s...
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