anisomorphism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From an- + isomorphism.
Noun[edit]
anisomorphism (countable and uncountable, plural anisomorphisms)
- (linguistics, lexicography) The absence of an exact correspondence between words etc. in two different languages; the differences between two given languages that create mismatches in a translation dictionary.[1]
- Antonyms: bijection, isomorphism
- 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 82:
- These well-known examples of the ‘imperfect matching’ or anisomorphism of languages do not really support the conclusion that translation is impossible.
Translations[edit]
differences between two languages
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