1. Plural of isomorph; organisms or substances that have the same or similar form or structure despite different origins or compositions.
Usage: Used in biology, chemistry, and geology; Often refers to organisms that evolved similar traits independently
2. In mathematics and computer science, structures that have a one-to-one correspondence preserving their operations or relationships.
Usage: Technical term in abstract algebra and graph theory

Examples

• The wings of birds and bats are isomorphs that evolved independently to serve the same function.
• In chemistry, different minerals can be isomorphs if they share the same crystal structure.
• The two graphs are isomorphs because they have identical connectivity patterns.
• Evolutionary biologists study isomorphs to understand convergent evolution.
• These mathematical structures are isomorphs of each other, preserving all their algebraic properties.