homology

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Recent Examples of homology Our disagreement, however, turns on a more basic question from information diffusion theory: how to achieve high homology between messenger and audience when attention itself is scarce. Torie Bosch, STAT, 7 Feb. 2026 In 1984, the genome of Shope virus was sequenced, which revealed significant homology with HPV type 1a. Matthew Binnicker, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025 There is an object, called a homology, which gives you a lot of topological information about the manifold. Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024 After using some standard techniques to simplify the data, the team computed the persistent homology of the system by connecting the data points at different scales and examining the resulting simplicial complexes. Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homology
Noun
  • But the cost, along with the homogeneity of the load and the fact that the units were spread throughout 38 buildings, resulted in the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, deciding not to pursue DOE funding.
    Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2026
  • If eligibility was limited to four years and affected by time playing in junior colleges and overseas, athletes would have a more restricted window of eligibility, giving them less time to move between schools, which would create more homogeneity in age and maturity and a more level playing field.
    Sheldon H. Jacobson, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • If antimatter ignored the weak equivalence principle, the atoms might have drifted upward, repelled by Earth.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • This is a telling, inauspicious equivalence.
    Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The sudden flood of oxytocin accompanying the onset of the drug produces feelings of emotional communion, oneness, and openness.
    Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026
  • What’s stripped out at its core—and this is the deepest core of the contemplative traditions—is a non-dual realization of wisdom, an experience of oneness.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026

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“Homology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homology. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.

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