allometry
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- noun
- /əˈlɑːmətri/
- Specialized
- Researchers in biology often use allometry to understand how different body parts grow in relation to the size of the entire organism.
- scaling relationships
- allometries and scaling
- laws of allometry
Examples
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Another role of allometries and scaling relationships is using body size as a predictive tool.
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The model indeed produces strong cross-species scaling patterns that closely resemble known empirical allometries.
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Harvey says that the work has broad implications for allometry studies in general.
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At the same time, however, a new and quite different perspective on allometries has emerged.
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"The reason allometry works is that if you get a big enough size range, size swamps everything else," Calder says.
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I have nothing against the idea that allometries and scaling relationships function in making predictions.
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Thus the terms "scaling exponent" and "slope" are often used interchangeably in discussions of allometry.
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If this context changed differently in different populations, this may help explain the evolution of novel and highly divergent allometries in these populations.
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In this article, I discuss three roles of allometries and scaling relationships: the explanatory, the predictive, and the heuristic.
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Why is body size—in contrast to some other variable—used as an independent variable in the literature on allometries and scaling relationships?
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How Proportional
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Surface Forms
Morphology
allometry = allo + metry
Formed from the combining forms 'allo-' and '-metry', which are technical combining elements rather than familiar standalone words, so an average B1 learner cannot reliably infer the specialized biological meaning from the parts.
Etymology
Allometry comes from the Greek parts allo- 'other' and -metry from metron 'measure', the same idea as in meter or metric. It literally means 'measuring the other', so in biology allometry is the study of how one body part grows compared with the whole animal.