Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1826, from Greek morphe "form, shape" (see Morpheus) + -ic.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context rare English) Of or pertaining to shape or form; morphological 2 (context botany English) Of or pertaining to morphs
Wikipedia
Morphic is a graphics system which uses graphical objects called Morphs for simplified GUI-building which allow for a great degree of flexibility and dynamism.
Morphic can refer to:
- Morphic field, a pseudoscientific hypothesis
- Morphic word
- Morphic (band), an American heavy metal band from Royal Oak, Michigan
- Morphic (software)
- Morphism, a mathematical term
Morphic was an American heavy metal band formed in Royal Oak, Michigan, in 2000. The band's final lineup consisted of John Webb (lead vocals), Josh DeVries (guitar), Wes Alfonsi (bass guitar), Andrew Hale (lead guitar) and Matt Morrocco (drums, percussion). Previously, the group also featured guitarist Tomo Miličević.
The band was formed under the name Loki; successively they agreed on changing its name to Morphic. By 2001, the group performed gigs at small Michigan venues and clubs. During this period, the band recorded demo tracks such as "Smart" and "The Priest". Arthur Spivak, who had seen the group at a showcase concert at The Viper Room in Los Angeles, offered to become the band's manager in the summer of 2001. During the year, Morphic opened concerts for The Used and 12 Stones.
In 2002, Miličević left the band (he later joined Thirty Seconds to Mars) and was replaced by Andrew Hale. Morphic then entered the studio to begin working on their EP Low Frequency Response, which was eventually released on June 28, 2003. A writer from The Flint Journal felt that the band "pushed themselves further with their art" and came out in "full force". To promote the album, Morphic went on tour with Trapt, Dark New Day, and Kittie. They also played concerts for Saliva, Thirty Seconds to Mars, and Finger Eleven.
Morphic went on indefinite hiatus in 2006. Webb and Alfonsi later formed Love Meets Lust in January 2007.
Usage examples of "morphic".
Indeed at each level in biological systems, as in chemical systems, the morphic units in isolation behave more indeterminately than they do when they are part of a higher-level morphic unit.
It is as if, he says, nature develops habitsmorphic units with morphic fields, which he also calls holonsand once these holons are developed or become set as habits of nature, then nature simply keeps reusing them in succeeding stagesanother version of compound individuality.
The biologists of this school say that biological form is created by immaterial morphic fields, fields of force that create forms.
He offers many examples of the functioning of the morphic resonance of behavior patterns within species and a clear example is of the well documented development of a habit among a bird species residing in England, the blue tits.
In the view of morphic resonance, this habit pattern resonated within the tit species and the pattern was then increasingly manifest by individual tits.
For a minute or two after Morphic Street went quiet nothing moved and nothing happened.
Our kitten, long fallen under the morphic influence of its vegetable ancestors, has taken root again, a fat furry bundle snoring in the soil.
A pine seed, coming to rest anywhere on the Disc, immediately picks up the most effective local genetic code via morphic resonance and grows into whatever best suits the soil and climate, usually doing much better at it than the native trees themselves, which it usually usurps.
All that was left to do was to add the morphic plasma in which the processor meat would be suspended.
Em-Lin pushed her hands through the morphic skin of the tank and back into the hot, fizzing plasma.
It is as if, he says, nature develops habitsmorphic units with morphic fields, which he also calls holonsand once these holons are developed or become set as habits of nature, then nature simply keeps reusing them in succeeding stagesanother version of compound individuality.
After a morphic field has emerged, it then acts as an omega point (up to its own level of depth) for subsequent and similar-depth holons: it is a past actual acting as a future perfect for similar development.
I felt the opening credits roll and then the pad went morphic and my last thought was.
Every time I think I’ve disabled something, the morphic system reconfigures to work around what I did.
In Sheldrake's morphic resonance theory, an archetype is viewed as a past form that constant repetition has reinforced, and which reaches out, therefore, to guide the formative process of subsequent similar holons.