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metamer

[ met-uh-mer ]

noun

, Chemistry.
  1. a compound exhibiting metamerism with one or more other compounds.


metamer

/ ˈmɛtəmə /

noun

  1. any of two or more isomeric compounds exhibiting metamerism
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of metamer1

First recorded in 1880–85; meta- + -mer
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Example Sentences

Humans recognized the metamers that produced the same activation as the corresponding audio clips in the early stages of the neural network.

In one striking demonstration of those limitations, the graduate student Jenelle Feather and others in McDermott’s lab focused on metamers, which are physically distinct input signals that produce the same representation in a system.

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