Metamorphic (disambiguation)
The term Metamorphic can be associated with a number of meanings:
Architecture
- Metamorphic library steps are a piece of 18th century folding furniture.
Business
- Metamorphic Ventures, a New York based venture capital firm.
Computing
- Metamorphic code is a programming technique used to disguise code in computer viruses.
- Metamorphic testing is a software testing technique.
Entertainment
- Metamorphic Force, an arcade game released by Konami in August 1993.
- Metamorphic: The String Quartet Tribute to Tool Vol. 2.
Medicine
- Metamorphic Technique is a form of massage used in complementary and alternative medicine.
Science
- Metamorphic rock: The term for rocks that have been transformed by extreme heat and pressure.
- Metamorphic core complex, exposures of deep crust exhumed in association with largely amagmatic extension.
- Metamorphic reaction, a chemical reaction that takes place during the geological process of metamorphism.
- Metamorphic facies, a set of metamorphic mineral assemblages that are formed under similar pressures and temperatures.
- Metamorphic zone, an area where, as a result of metamorphism, the same combination of minerals occurs in the bed rocks.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 3/11/2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.