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isometric
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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

isometric [¦ī·sə′me·trik]
(physics)


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Dissociation between metabolic and contractile responses during intermittent isometric exercise in man.
People who use the remote control for isometric exercise (and that's just about everybody, and certainly every single male with power in his wrists) flip from channel to channel and see women's TV, black TV, Spanish TV, men's TV, kids' TV, military buffs' TV, and now--gay TV.
Strengthening can be done through isometric exercises -- a muscle contraction with no motion.
 
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