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isometric system

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isometric system [¦ī·sə′me·trik ′sis·təm]
(crystallography)
The crystal system in which the forms are referred to three equal, mutually perpendicular axes. Also known as cubic system.


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These playfully idiosyncratic maps, Denes's unrelenting seriousness notwithstanding, exhibit a dry humor: Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space: Map Projections--The Hot Dog, 1976, for example, shows an earth that has improbably morphed into the shape of a frankfurter.
 
 
 
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