Metamerism

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Metamerism may refer to:

  • Metamerism (biology), in zoology and developmental biology, the property of having repeated segments, as in annelids
  • Metamerism (color), in colorimetry, a perceived matching of colors that, based on differences in spectral power distribution, do not actually match
  • In chemistry, the chemical property of having the same number and type of atomic components in different arrangements (see structural isomer)