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Turing pattern

Turing pattern noun: a pattern, found in nature, that arises naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state, through instability.

turing pattern: a pattern, found in nature, that arises naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform...
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Noun

Turing pattern (plural Turing patterns)

  1. A pattern, found in nature, that arises naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state, through instability.

Forms of Turing pattern

pluralTuring patterns

Origin of Turing pattern

Introduced by English mathematician Alan Turing in a 1952 paper titled The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis.

Questions about Turing pattern

What does Turing pattern mean?
Turing pattern means a pattern, found in nature, that arises naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state, through instability.
What part of speech is Turing pattern?
Turing pattern is a noun.
What is the plural of Turing pattern?
The plural of Turing pattern is Turing patterns.

Words near Turing pattern in the dictionary

  1. Turing instability
  2. Turing jump
  3. Turing jumps
  4. Turing machine
  5. Turing machines
  6. Turing pattern
  7. Turing patterns
  8. Turing reduction
  9. Turing reductions
  10. Turing switch
  11. Turing switches

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