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homomorphic

American  
[hoh-muh-mawr-fik, hom-uh-] / ˌhoʊ məˈmɔr fɪk, ˌhɒm ə- /

adjective

Mathematics.
  1. pertaining to two sets that are related by a homomorphism.


Etymology

Origin of homomorphic

First recorded in 1865–70; homo- + -morphic

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Dr. Impagliazzo said homomorphic encryption could allow you to provide encrypted financial information to a credit bureau, and the credit bureau to, in turn, calculate your credit score without ever learning anything about you.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2021

MIT professor Vinod Vaikuntanathan introduced homomorphic encryption, which produces an encrypted result from encrypted data, allowing the user to get the result without seeing any of the input data.

From Forbes • Mar. 12, 2014

Vaikuntanathan indicated that homomorphic encryption would be complemented by a functional certification service, which is a kind of mediator that accepts queries from users.

From Forbes • Mar. 12, 2014

IBM claimed that computer scientist Craig Gentry had developed a practical, fully homomorphic system in 2009, but critics said the technology was too complex, slow and impractical for actual use in the cloud.

From Scientific American • Mar. 7, 2014

In "Forms of Flowers," Edition II., page 216, a summary of the transmission of forms in the "homomorphic" unions of P. sinensis is given.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir