Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Equal in duration.
- adj. Characterized by or occurring at equal intervals of time.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Uniform in time; of equal time; performed in equal times. Two pendulums which vibrate in the same time are isochronal; also, the vibrations of a pendulum in the curve of a cycloid have the same property, being all performed in the same time, whether the arc be large or small. Also isochronous.
Wiktionary
- adj. having the same duration
- adj. happening at regular periods; isochronous, periodic
- adj. computing, of data time dependent
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Uniform in time; of equal time; performed in equal times; recurring at regular intervals.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. equal in duration or interval
Etymologies
- isochron + -al (Wiktionary)
- From New Latin īsochronus, from Greek īsokhronos : īso-, iso- + khronos, time. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The assumption of isochronal behaviour is always a problem is both open and globular clusters.”
“Escapement friction plays an important role in the position and isochronal adjustments; the greater the friction encountered the slower the vibration of the balance.”
“There was something indescribably grim and bodeful in those isochronal batterings of the solid ground.”
“A trombone blatted -- there was the staccato tuck of a snare drum, and the boom of a bass drum came in with isochronal beats.”
“He chewed slowly, conscientiously and continuously on tobacco which bulged in his cheek; his jaws, moving as steadily as a pendulum swings, seemed to set the time for the isochronal whistle-blast.”
“It often happens, however, during the first critical epoch, which is isochronal with the technical educational period of a girl, that after a few occasions of catamenial hemorrhage, moderate perhaps but still hemorrhage, which are not heeded, the conservative force of Nature steps in, and saves the blood by arresting the function.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘isochronal’.
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 321 more...
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Greek to me
Gordian knot, Proteus, sisyphean, eudemonia, glossolalia, hemorrhage, hamadryad, aphotic, tautogeneity, anthropomorphism, polygamy, polygyny and 37 more...
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Latin
exempli gratia, deus ex machina, prolix, sisyphean, minatory, empyrean, cicatrix, demulcent, effulgence, emulsion, garum, ablative and 39 more...
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Sci-tech
cicatrix, senescence, varicose, gestalt, glossolalia, synesthesia, hypolactasia, hemoglobin, ametabolic, eutrophic, eutrophication, cryptid and 35 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Foucault's Pendulum
telluric, isochronal, Agarttha, obverse, panta rei, numinous, ogive, nave, sapiential, didactic, archon, chthonian and 48 more...
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Eco echo
While cleaning out some drawers today (28 September 2008), I found a list of words from Foucault's Pendulum that I'd written fifteen or twenty years ago. I'm adding some of them here, along with ot...
pendulum, isochronal, sublunar, triadic, unnumbered, unstretchable, pentaculum, agarttha, panta rei, ein-sof, chthonian, chelae and 51 more...
Tweets
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mollusque That was when I saw the Pendulum.
The sphere, hanging from a long wire set into the ceiling of the choir, swayed back and forth with isochronal majesty.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 3 Sep 28, 2008
azd also isochronous Mar 14, 2007