Morphogram
A morphogram is a word formation derived from the Greek, which is used in very different contexts to designate the smallest representational units ( morphé , "shape", "form"; grámma , "writing", "representation").
- A special concept formation in French linguistics to describe special features of the French language. The "morphograms", " notations de morphèmes ", are z. B. Endings (like the "s" of the plural).
- In the border area between philosophy and mathematics, a term introduced by Gotthard Günther (1900–1984) to describe the smallest units of information (e.g. aab ), which in turn are made up of a sequence of even smaller kenograms ( a, b ). The Morphogrammatik is part of his " Polykontexturallogik " in which it comes to the reflection on other and also to itself [self-referentiality] formally be able to show consistent. Currently this approach is u. a. continued by Rudolf Kaehr in his work on semiotics .
- In the fine arts a . a. a concept formation by Nicolaus Schmidt (from 1988) for a work area of strongly reduced anthropomorphic signs (signs based on the shapes of human bodies).
- In geography , a morphogram is a schematic representation of the distribution of land and sea as a function of a coordinate. For example, a length morphogram provides information about which part of a geographic meridian runs over land or sea.
In addition, the term morphogram is rarely used in geology as an alternative to histogram (based on Poser & Hövermann, 1951–52).
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