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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In optics, a curve, in the interference pattern produced when a crystal is viewed in the convergent field of a polari-scope, which passes everywhere through regions having the same color; a curve of equal difference of path; au isochromatic curve.

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  • Both speaking and shaking were to be done in rhythmic time to a metronome-like instrument of his own devising called an isochrome.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • Both speaking and shaking were to be done in rhythmic time to a metronome-like instrument of his own devising called an isochrome.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

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