shape [PATO_0000052]

A morphological quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer’s ratios of distances between its features (points, edges, surfaces and also holes etc).

shape

ID: PATO_0000052

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A morphological quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's ratios of distances between its features (points, edges, surfaces and also holes etc).

Shapes are invariant on size transformations. Shapes can be subdivided into 2D and 3D shapes, We can also make a distinction between shapes of complete self-connected objects, and shapes of parts of objects.

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relational shape quality exact synonym