metamer
[ met-uh-mer ]
/ ˈmɛt ə mər /
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noun Chemistry.
a compound exhibiting metamerism with one or more other compounds.
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In one striking demonstration of those limitations, the graduate student Jenelle Feather and others in McDermott’s lab focused on metamers, which are physically distinct input signals that produce the same representation in a system.
Deep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains|Anil Ananthaswamy|October 28, 2020|Quanta MagazineHumans recognized the metamers that produced the same activation as the corresponding audio clips in the early stages of the neural network.
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British Dictionary definitions for metamer
metamer
/ (ˈmɛtəmə) /
noun
any of two or more isomeric compounds exhibiting metamerism
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Medical definitions for metamer
metamer
[ mĕt′ə-mər ]
n.
A compound that contains the same number and type of atoms as other compounds but with a different distribution of radicals.
A color that appears to the eye to be identical to another color but which in fact has a different spectral composition.
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