morph

verb3

1. •
   To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
2. •
   To shapeshift.

   • Meta leapt forward. In midair his lower half morphed, and suddenly he was one-half humanoid, one-half coiled spring. — 1993
3. •
   To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.

   • “Highbrow and lowbrow, alternative and mainstream, work and play, CEO and hipster are all morphing together today,” [Richard] Florida enthuses. — 2014

noun6

1. •
   A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.

   • But what is this metasubstance that blinks at us from the apex of the morph, and that in Terminator 2 is hyperbolized in the quicksilver substratum of the T-1000? — 2000
2. •
   A variety of a species, distinguishable from other individuals of the species by morphology or behaviour.

   • Briefly, the yellow morphic males can change their status from paired to satellite and from satellite to the paired one. However, they cannot cross into the status of the red morph. — 2010
3. •
   A recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds representing an indivisible morphological form; especially as representing a morpheme.

   • Bq. ezpel ['box tree'] likely goes back to *ez-, a morph found in Basque tree names, and *-bel 'dark'. — 2025
4. •
   An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
5. •
   (slang) Morphine.
6. •
   A hermaphrodite, an intersex person.

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of morphology.