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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Origin of metamer

First recorded in 1880–85; meta- + -mer

Words nearby metamer

metal wood, metalwork, metalworking, metamale, metamathematics, metamer, metamere, metameric, metamerism, metamict, metamorphic

How to use metamer in a sentence

Humans recognized the metamers that produced the same activation as the corresponding audio clips in the early stages of the neural network.
Deep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains|Anil Ananthaswamy|October 28, 2020|Quanta Magazine
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 Magazine

British Dictionary definitions for metamer

metamer

/ (ˈmɛtəmə) /

noun

any of two or more isomeric compounds exhibiting metamerism

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