Usually means: Variability in form among organisms.
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  1. polymorphism: Merriam-Webster
  2. polymorphism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. polymorphism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. polymorphism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. polymorphism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Polymorphism, polymorphism: Wordnik
  7. polymorphism: Wiktionary
  8. polymorphism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. polymorphism: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. polymorphism: Dictionary.com
  11. Polymorphism (biology), Polymorphism (computer science), Polymorphism (disambiguation), Polymorphism (genetics), Polymorphism (materials science), Polymorphism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Polymorphism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. polymorphism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. polymorphism: Rhymezone
  15. Polymorphism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. polymorphism: FreeDictionary.org
  17. polymorphism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. polymorphism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. polymorphism: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. polymorphism: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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  3. Polymorphism (disambiguation), polymorphism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. polymorphism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Polymorphism: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. polymorphism: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. Polymorphism (biology), Polymorphism (disambiguation), polymorphism: Medical dictionary
  9. Polymorphism: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  4. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  6. polymorphism: Evolution Glossary
  7. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)
  9. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polymorphism: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (polymorphism)

noun:  The ability to assume different forms or shapes.
noun:  (biology) The coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.
noun:  (object-oriented programming) A feature pertaining to the dynamic treatment of data elements based on their type, allowing for a method to have several definitions.
noun:  (mathematics, type theory) The property of certain typed formal systems of allowing for the use of type variables and binders/quantifiers over those type variables; likewise, the property of certain expressions (within such typed formal systems) of making use of at least one such typed variable.
noun:  (crystallography) The ability of a solid material to exist in more than one form or crystal structure; pleomorphism.
noun:  (genetics) The regular existence of two or more different genotypes within a given species or population; also, variability of amino acid sequences within a gene's protein.

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