English Explanatory Dictionary

Turing pattern

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A pattern, found in nature, that arises naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state, through instability.

Word forms

Turing pattern Turing patterns

Etymology

Introduced by English mathematician Alan Turing in a 1952 paper titled The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis.

Related words

Turing instability
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