Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having equal diameters or axes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having equal diameters, or being of equal diameter. Specifically— In crystallography, pertaining to crystals having equal lateral axes, as crystals of the tetragonal or hexagonal systems, which are optically uniaxial.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having an equal or nearly equal diameter in all directions
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Crystallog.) Developed alike in the directions of the several lateral axes; -- said of crystals of both the tetragonal and hexagonal systems.
- adj. (Bot.) Having the several diameters nearly equal; -- said of the cells of ordinary parenchyma.
Examples
“They are more or less angular, and while elongated transversely at first, become nearly isodiametric as the pileus becomes fully expanded, passing from an elongated form to rectangular, or sinuous in outline, the margin more or less upturned, especially in age, when they begin to loosen and "peel" from the surface of the cap.”
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Palynology
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Adjectival Arcana
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