MEANING
Having the same or closely matching structure or pattern of relationships.
Use it for
comparing structures built from different components; identifying an equivalent pattern of relationships; distinguishing structural similarity from identity in every featureCompares patterns of relationships without requiring identical components, names or physical appearance. Academic functions: Comparison / Contrast, Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- isomorphic structures
- isomorphic organizational forms
- isomorphic pressures
On the page
The argument treats the organizations as isomorphic in hierarchy, not identical in personnel.
Isomorphic pressures can encourage similar organizational structures without producing identical everyday practices.
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Usage notes
Often before a noun or isomorphic to/with. Normally non-gradable in exact formal use; no ordinary -er/-est forms. Register: academic. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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