skiamorph

plural skiamorphs

1. uncommonSynonym of skeuomorph.

   Survivals of this sort are known as ‘skiamorphs’ (shadow shapes), and in one form or another they are very common in technology,^([sic]) A modern instance is the survival of timber graining on the surface of plastic mouldings and furniture.

   2009 [1981], J. E. Gordon, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down, Hachette Books, →ISBN

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   As mentioned above, archaeology shows us that the echo of one material is often imitated in other materials as a ‘skiamorph’ (skia, Greek for shadow; morph, shape). Here one medium ‘shadows’ another material, which may have become outmoded by quicker industrial processes yet the exact shape of the older form is retained in the newer material.

   2015, Janis Jefferies, Diana Wood Conroy, Hazel Clark, editors, The Handbook of Textile Culture, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 143

   Synonyms: skeuomorph