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Meaning of "allometry" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ALLOMETRY

allometry  [əˈlɒmɪtrɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALLOMETRY

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adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Allometry is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ALLOMETRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

allometry

Allometry

Allometry is the study of the relationship of body size to shape, anatomy, physiology and finally behaviour, first outlined by Otto Snell in 1892, D'Arcy Thompson in 1917 and Julian Huxley in 1932. Allometry is a well-known study, particularly in statistical shape analysis for its theoretical developments, as well as in biology for practical applications to the differential growth rates of the parts of a living organism's body. One application is in the study of various insect species, where a small change in overall body size can lead to an enormous and disproportionate increase in the dimensions of appendages such as legs, antennae, or horns. The relationship between the two measured quantities is often expressed as a power law: or in a logarithmic form: where is the scaling exponent of the law. Methods for estimating this exponent from data use type 2 regressions such as major axis regression or reduced major axis regression as these account for the variation in both variables, contrary to least squares regression, which does not account for error variance in the independent variable.

Definition of allometry in the English dictionary

The definition of allometry in the dictionary is the study of the growth of part of an organism in relation to the growth of the entire organism. Other definition of allometry is a change in proportion of any of the parts of an organism that occurs during growth.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ALLOMETRY


anthropometry
ˌænθrəˈpɒmɪtrɪ
astrometry
əˈstrɒmɪtrɪ
audiometry
ˌɔːdɪˈɒmɪtrɪ
biometry
baɪˈɒmɪtrɪ
cephalometry
ˌsɛfəˈlɒmɪtrɪ
cometary
ˈkɒmɪtrɪ
coulometry
kuːˈlɒmɪtrɪ
cyclometry
saɪˈklɒmɪtrɪ
cytometry
saɪˈtɒmɪtrɪ
geometry
dʒɪˈɒmɪtrɪ
isometry
aɪˈsɒmɪtrɪ
morphometry
mɔːˈfɒmɪtrɪ
nephelometry
ˌnɛfɪˈlɒmɪtrɪ
optometry
ɒpˈtɒmɪtrɪ
psychometry
saɪˈkɒmɪtrɪ
radiometry
ˌreɪdɪˈɒmɪtrɪ
spectrometry
spɛkˈtrɒmɪtrɪ
spectrophotometry
ˌspektrəʊfəʊˈtɒmɪtrɪ
stoichiometry
ˌstɔɪkɪˈɒmɪtrɪ
trigonometry
ˌtrɪɡəˈnɒmɪtrɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALLOMETRY

allogeneic
allogenic
allograft
allograph
allographic
alloiostrophos
allomeric
allomerism
allomerous
allometric
allomone
allomorph
allomorphic
allomorphism
allonge
allonym
allopath
allopathic
allopathically
allopathist

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALLOMETRY

altimetry
analytical geometry
asymmetry
calorimetry
coordinate geometry
densitometry
dosimetry
interferometry
plane geometry
poetry
reflectometry
supersymmetry
symmetry
tachometry
telemetry
thermometry
tonometry
variable-geometry
velocimetry
viscometry
volumetry

Synonyms and antonyms of allometry in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «allometry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ALLOMETRY

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The translations of allometry from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «allometry» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

异速生长
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

alometría
570 millions of speakers

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allometry
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Translator English - Hindi

allometry
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ar

Translator English - Arabic

قياس التنامي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

аллометрия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

alometria
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Translator English - Bengali

allometry
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

allométrie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Allometry
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Translator English - German

Allometrie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

アロメトリー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

allometry
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Translator English - Javanese

Allometry
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tương quan
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அன்னியமானம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अॅलॉटरीस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

allometry
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

allometria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

allometrię
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

аллометрія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

allometry
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el

Translator English - Greek

αλλομετρία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

allometry
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

allometry
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

allometri
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of allometry

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALLOMETRY»

The term «allometry» is regularly used and occupies the 98.703 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ALLOMETRY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about allometry

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALLOMETRY»

Discover the use of allometry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to allometry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Plant Allometry: The Scaling of Form and Process
Now distinguished plant biologist Karl J. Niklas has written the first book to apply allometry to studies of the evolution, morphology, physiology, and reproduction of plants.
Karl J. Niklas, 1994
2
The Allometry of Growth and Reproduction
Allometry investigates the effects of size on such variables as food intake, growth rates and age at first reproduction. Here, explanations are proposed for many phenomena.
Michael J. Reiss, 1991
3
Allometry: Size, Shape, Statistical Shape Analysis, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, 2010
4
Pharmacokinetics in Drug Development: Clinical Study Design ...
termed "vertical allometry" (Calder, 1984). Vertical allometry has also been reported for some drugs, such as diazepam (Klotz et al., 1976). Using simple allometry, the predicted CL of diazepam in humans is 33-fold higher than the observed ...
Peter L. Bonate, Danny R. Howard, 2005
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Advances in Morphometrics
Christian Peter Klingenberg Department of Biological Sciences University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada ABSTRACT The subject of allometry is variation in morphometric variables or other features of organisms associated ...
Leslie F. Marcus, 1996
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Reproductive Allocation in Plants
I. Introduction The concept of allometry has a long and convoluted history, predominantly applied to animals by zoologists, such as W. D'Arcy Thompson, J. S. Huxley, and more recently, S. J. Gould (Thompson, 1917; Huxley, 1932; Gould, ...
Edward Reekie, Fakhri A. Bazzaz, 2011
7
New Research on Forest Ecosystems
The increasing interest in tree allometry has recently generated a plethora of empirical scaling equations which cover a broad spectrum of size, metabolism and evolution for several species. In this chapter four different aspects of tree allometry ...
A. R. Burk, 2005
8
Swim Bladder Allometry of Selected Midwater Fish Species
Results of the study demonstrate that equations currently in use overestimate the volumes of the swimbladders and thus acoustic cross sections of many midwater fish species.
Albert Brooks, 1976
9
Contributions to Morphometrics
Qualitative studies of ontogenetic allometry are useful both for examining functional and ecological consequences of shape change during growth and for inferring historical processes that potentially explain the diversity in adult form among ...
Leslie Floyd Marcus, Elisa Bello, Antonio García-Valdecasas, 1993
10
Tree Species Effects on Soils: Implications for Global ...
(1999a) suggested that for a given site and species, root to shoot allometry should be less sensitive to changes in environmental conditions than root to shoot ratios of forbs (McConnaughay and Coleman 1999), or seedlings of woody plants ...
Dan Binkley, Oleg Menyailo, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALLOMETRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term allometry is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Data Mining Reveals How Human Health Varies with City Size
The science of allometry, the study of the relationship between body size and shape, is more than 100 years old. It dates to the late 19th century ... «The Predictive Analytics Times, Jun 15»
2
Another Life: The lost treasures of the dead zoo
Armed with the first proper measurements, Gould was able to fit the deer into the evolutionary process called allometry, in which, as deer get ... «Irish Times, May 15»
3
Genetically integrated traits and rugged adaptive landscapes in …
Lande R. Quantitative genetic analysis of multivariate evolution, applied to brain:body size allometry. Evolution. 1979; 33:402-416. Publisher ... «BMC Blogs Network, May 15»
4
The Huia and the Sexually Dimorphic Bill
The most obvious differences here are probably due to allometry. ... However, it's a strong positive allometry that has acted on the bill alone. «Scientific American, Mar 15»
5
Durata Therapeutics Presents New Data for DALVANCE(TM) at …
A population PK model was fit to plasma and bone PK data and covariate analysis was performed. Allometry was used to determine the total ... «GlobeNewswire, Oct 14»
6
They don't understand allometry!
Most of its central citations to biological allometry are to 1980s papers on allometry that failed to take the the phylogeny of the organisms into ... «ScienceBlogs, Jul 14»
7
Fast Growing Bornean Trees Important For Carbon Cycling
... well as differences in a measurement known as height-diameter allometry. This difference amounts to 3.2 tons of wood per hectare per year. «Asian Scientist Magazine, May 14»
8
Journal Highlight: Morphological analysis of the flippers in the …
For the first time DA, allometry, physical maturity, and SD of the flipper skeleton—by X-ray technique—of Pontoporia blainvillei were analyzed. «spectroscopyNOW.com, Apr 14»
9
How A Powerful Mathematical Principle Spelled Doom For Absurdly …
Allometry can help explain one of the stranger moments in the history of life on Earth. In the Carboniferous period, a little over 300 million years ... «Business Insider Australia, Mar 14»
10
Cities, Networks, and the Counterintuitive Nature of Suicide
The study of how things scale is known as allometry. Perhaps the most famous example is Kleiber's law which states that the metabolic rate of ... «MIT Technology Review, Feb 14»

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