Meanings
nounTuring pattern (plural Turing patterns)
plural Turing patterns
- biologyA pattern, found in nature, that arises naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state, through instability.
Origin
Introduced by English mathematician Alan Turing in a 1952 paper titled The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis.
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