Examples of “allomorph” in a Sentence

noun In chemistry, an allomorph is one of the different crystalline forms that a substance can take.

• Calcium carbonate can crystallize as more than one allomorph.
• Each allomorph of the mineral has a slightly different crystal structure.

noun In linguistics, an allomorph is one of the different phonological (spoken) forms that a single morpheme can take.

• The plural morpheme in English has several allomorphs, such as the sounds heard in cats, dogs and horses.
• Linguists study how allomorphs of the same morpheme are chosen depending on the sounds around them.