isometric

isometric

1. Physiol of or relating to muscular contraction that does not produce shortening of the muscle

2. (of a crystal or system of crystallization) having three mutually perpendicular equal axes

3. Crystallog another word for cubic

4. Prosody having or made up of regular feet

5. (of a method of projecting a drawing in three dimensions) having the three axes equally inclined and all lines drawn to scale

6. a drawing made in this way

7. a line on a graph showing variations of pressure with temperature at constant volume

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isometric

[¦ī·sə′me·trik]

(physics)

isochore

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