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.

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Etymology

Origin of homomorphic

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

Example Sentences

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

Although homomorphic encryption was suggested in 1979, no one could figure out how to make it work till 2009, and viable implementations such as HELib and HCrypt emerged only recently.

From Forbes • Mar. 12, 2014

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

Since the late 1970s, researchers have been saying that fully homomorphic encryption—in which protected information can be sliced and diced any number of ways without revealing the actual data—is possible.

From Scientific American • Mar. 7, 2014

Possibly my results may be hardly worth publishing, but I think they will; the seedlings from two successive homomorphic generations seem excessively sterile.

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