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adjective

Amorphous adj.

Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.

Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.

Of no particular kind or character; anomalous. "Scientific treatises... are not seldom rude and amorphous in style."

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Etymology of 'Amorphous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... were to be rescued from the heathen darkness in which it has dwelt, and to be admitted within the community of scientific truth, by being christened a monolith. If it be large and shapeless, it may take rank as an amorphous megalith; and it is on record that the owner of some muirland acres, finding them described in a learned work as "richly megalithic," became suddenly excited by hopes which were quickly extinguished when the import of the ...

— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton

... world furnished with such solidly comforting facts as soaps and razors and hot and cold saltwater taps; and subsequently one left one's stateroom to see, at the breakfast table, leaden-eyed and flushed of countenance, an amorphous lump of humid flesh in shapeless garments of soiled white duck, the author of that mutter in the dark; who, lounging over a plate of broken food and lifting a coffee cup in the tremulous hand of an alcoholic, ...

— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance

... be of desirable shade, was softer and lighter in weight than true emerald. It was also a true glass and hence singly refracting and without dichroism, whereas emerald is crystalline (not glassy or amorphous), is ...

— A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public • Frank Bertram Wade

... approach, or at least some comparison to make between vegetables and animals, this can only be by opposing plants the most simply organized, like fungi and algae, to the most imperfect animals like the polyps, and especially the amorphous polyps, which occur in ...

— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard

... sulphur. Flowers of sulphur, the preparation of which has been described, consists of a mixture of rhombic crystals and amorphous particles. When treated with carbon disulphide, the crystals dissolve, leaving the amorphous particles as ...

— An Elementary Study of Chemistry • William McPherson

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