allometry
- noun
- /əˈlɑːmətri/
- Specialized
- In urban studies, allometry helps researchers understand how infrastructure investments scale with a city's population size.
- allometry and scaling
- allometries and scaling relationships
Examples
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Does the claim that some allometries and scaling relationships represent phenomena to be explained rather than things that do the explaining cast a shadow over allometry and scaling relationship studies?
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In other words, it is sometimes not true that allometries and scaling relationships can be used to make successful or accurate predictions.
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Rather than providing us with explanations, many allometries and scaling relationships represent interesting objects of explanation.
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Body size, as an independent variable, typically "explains" only part of the variation in the dependent variable of allometries and scaling relationships.
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This argument shows why the explanatory status of allometries and scaling relationships is independent of the explanations for these relationships.
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The aim was not to suggest that allometries and scaling relationships cannot be used in causal explanations of phenomena.
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Below are reasons to be suspicious of the explanatory and causal relevance of some allometries and scaling relationships.
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Does the claim that some allometries and scaling relationships represent phenomena to be explained rather than things that do the explaining cast a shadow over allometry and scaling relationship studies?
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Moreover, I have argued against views that regard allometries and scaling relationships as representing laws (Raerinne 2011b).
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In other words, many allometries and scaling relationships serve a heuristic role by suggesting new hypotheses and phenomena to be explained and by helping to discover regular connections between body size and other biological variables.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
allometry = allo + metry
The same combining elements are used for a technical sense in complex systems/urban studies; the components are specialist morphemes and do not yield the domain-specific meaning for typical learners.
Etymology
Allometry comes from the Greek parts allo- 'other' and -metry from metron 'measure', the same idea as in meter or metric. So in studies of cities or systems, allometry describes how things like roads, people, or money change as the whole city gets bigger.
