automorphic

American  

[aw-tuh-mawr-fik] / ˌɔ təˈmɔr fɪk /

adjective

Petrography.

1. idiomorphic.

---

Other Word Forms

• automorphically adverb

Etymology

Origin of automorphic

First recorded in 1870–75; auto- ¹ + -morphic

Example Sentences

The reciprocity conjecture supposes these motives come from a different type of analytical mathematical object discovered by Langlands called automorphic representations, Arthur notes.

From Scientific American • Mar. 21, 2022

That solution in fact is to be sought with the help of automorphic functions, which, however, as has been remarked, have, for p > 1, an infinite number of essential singularities.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

A similar utility, of a more extended kind, belongs to automorphic functions in general; but it can be shown that such functions necessarily have an infinite number of essential singularities except for the simplest cases.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

In their analytical form, as groups of linear transformations of a single variable, the groups are those on which the theory of automorphic functions depends.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

The conception which any one frames of another's mind is more or less after the pattern of his own mind, Ð is automorphic.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah