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Isothermal adj.

Relating to equality of temperature, or an isotherm.

(Phys. Geog.) Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart.

Isothermal line.

(a)

An isotherm.

(b)

A line drawn on a diagram of energy such that its ordinates represent the pressures of a substance corresponding to various volumes, while the absolute temperature is maintained at a constant value.

Isothermal zones, spaces on opposite sides of the equator having the same mean temperature, and bounded by corresponding isothermal lines.

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Etymology of 'Isothermal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Isothermal" Quotes from Famous Books

... you can describe that line on the map, and it stays right where you put it. All north of that line the peach trees are affected by yellows, and south they are not. That line runs through Mount Vernon and Annapolis, and across Chesapeake Bay to Chestertown. Now, below that isothermal line there is a little peninsula south of Chestertown, in Kent county, a little peninsula there—a little long neck that runs out into the bay below Chestertown—where they have never had any peach yellows, and yet at Chestertown the trees ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting • Various

... atmosphere, however, is that which we have indicated as occurring at the height of nine thousand meters. Above this, the temperature ceases to fall and we enter what has been called the stratosphere or isothermal region. For convenience we will call this upper change the MAJOR inversion and the lower one near the ground the MINOR inversion. In some ways we know more about the former than the latter. Strictly ...

— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... of new words, is the desire thereby to cut short lengthy{122} explanations, tedious circuits of language. Science is often an immense gainer by words, which say singly what it would have taken whole sentences otherwise to have said. Thus 'isothermal' is quite of modern invention; but what a long story it would be to tell the meaning of 'isothermal lines', all which is summed up in and saved by the word. We have long had the word 'assimilation' in our dictionaries; 'dissimilation' has not yet found ...

— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench

... the globe, the isothermal lines, or lines of equal winter temperature when traced westward from Europe to North America bend 10 degrees south, there being a marked excess of winter cold in corresponding latitudes west of the Atlantic. ...

— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell

... Isothermal Lines. If a line were drawn through all points on the surface of the earth having an equal barometric pressure at the same time, such a line would be called an isobar. For example, if the height of ...

— General Science • Bertha M. Clark

Words linked to "Isothermal" : isotherm