The form of a person or thing is its shape. To conform is to fit in with others in form, shape, or manner. Something formal, such as dinner, follows a specific custom or form. The format of something, such as a book, is its general shape and arrangement.
Amoeboid movement is the most common mode of locomotion in Eukaryotic cells. It is a crawling-like type of movement accomplished by protrusion of cytoplasm of the cell involving the formation of pseudopodia. The cytoplasm slides and forms a pseudopodium in front to move the cell forward. This type of movement has been linked to changes in action potential; the exact mechanism is still unknown.
Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  amoeba(Noun) A genus of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. 2  amoeba(Noun) The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.