caption: this story reveals the epistemological purpose for a "storm."
..time flowed more slowely. The waves moved like molasses. The shocks were stretched out, and he could trace the force imbalances. He could not speed the finite duration of impulses flowing between his billions of neural cells, but he could slow time and process data that way. Time, he realized, could be traded for information. […] The storm on the Nantucket South Shoals had spawned a gradient storm in time itself. – Hilbert Schenck, The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck
def; morphology: the study of the forms of things; the study of the internal structures of words.
- Biology
- Linguistics
the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures.
the study of the forms of words.