Turing pattern

noun

Turing pattern

noun

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

1

Biology, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Sciences A pattern, found in nature, that arises naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state, through instability.

Related terms
Turing instability

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