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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or exhibiting equality in dimensions or measurements.
  2. adj. Of or being a crystal system of three equal axes lying at right angles to each other.
  3. adj. Physiology Of or involving muscular contraction against resistance in which the length of the muscle remains the same.
  4. n. A line connecting isometric points.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of equal measure.
  2. In crystallography, pertaining to that system which is characterized by three equal axes at right angles to one another. The seven holohedral forms under this system are the cube, regular octahedron, rhombic dodecahedron, tetrahexahedron, tetragonal and trigonal trisoctahedron, and hexoctahedron. The tetrahedron and pyritohedron are the most common hemihedral forms. Also called monometric, regular, tessular, cubic. See crystallography.
  3. In petrography, evenly granular: as. an isometric texture in which the crystal grains are of nearly the same size.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of, or exhibiting equality in dimensions.
  2. adj. Of, or being a geometric system of three equal axes lying at right angles to each other (especially in crystallography).
  3. adj. physiology Of or involving muscular contraction against resistance in which the length of the muscle remains the same. See also: Wikipedia:isometric exercise
  4. adj. physics, of a thermodynamic process Taking place at constant volume because of being confined by rigid boundaries.
  5. n. A line connecting isometric points.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Pertaining to, or characterized by, equality of measure.
  2. adj. (Crystallog.) Noting, or conforming to, that system of crystallization in which the three axes are of equal length and at right angles to each other; monometric; regular; cubic. Cf. Crystallization.
  3. adj. Of or pertaining to isometrics.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of a crystal system characterized by three equal axes at right angles
  2. n. a line connecting isometric points
  3. adj. related by an isometry
  4. adj. of or involving muscular contraction in which tension increases while length remains constant
  5. adj. having equal dimensions or measurements

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ἰσομέτρητος (isometrētos, "equal in measure"), from ἴσος (isos, "equal") + μέτρον (metron, "measure"). See also: iso- and metric. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Greek īsometros, of equal measure : īso-, iso- + metron, measure; see mē-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “This will mean that they will need to take blood pressure lowering medicines and may need to avoid certain isometric activities, like football, weight-training, and wrestling.”

    Coarctation of the Aorta

  • “These are called isometric exercises, and they really work if you do them.”

    CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2004

  • “Angelo Siciliano immigrated to New York from Italy as a child, and after getting pounded on by Brooklyn bullies for a few years, he came up with the idea of muscle-against-muscle fitness training, now known as isometric exercise.”

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  • “But this is how you do kind of isometric exercises.”

    CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2007

  • “So the sheer kind of isometric stress from that hurts.”

    CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2006

  • “If the space is a so-called metric space, it is usually expected that the underlying automorphism shall at least be isometric, meaning that the transformations preserve the distance between any pair of points.”

    SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY

  • “With an elegant point-and-click interface and an accessible "isometric" perspective, Mythos is poised to have near-universal appeal.”

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  • “Crystal Dynamics developers put it during a hands-on preview a few months back, offers an angled top-down "isometric" view of the action rather than an over-the-shoulder, third-person perspective.”

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  • “It's Bobby Bearing, an 'isometric' arcade game from 1986!”

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  • “Diablo III, Torchlight and their ilk are not "isometric".”

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Other words for ‘isometric’

  1. three-dimensional
  1. cubic
  1. equal
  1. isometrical

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. orthographic
  2. free-hand
  3. selfadjoint
  4. pentagonal
  1. as-built
  2. close-packed
  3. two-dimensional
  4. orthogonal
  1. water-colour
  2. silver-point
  3. straight-line
  4. hexahedral
  1. diagrammatic
  2. icosahedral
  3. three-game
  4. cutaway
  1. 3-point
  2. two-point
  3. free-body
  4. planar
  1. forward-facing

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. pseudo-symmetry
  2. isometrics
  3. tesseral
  4. tessular
  5. monometric
  6. isometrical
  7. magnetite
  8. martite
  9. linnæite
  10. deltohedron
  11. cubic
  12. cuprite
  13. hauynite
  14. heptane
  15. glucose
  16. digonal
  17. ditesseral
  1. eglestonite
  2. hieratite
  3. isometric
  4. isoplere
  5. knopite
  6. monimolite
  7. polyargyrite
  8. pseudocubic
  9. tetartoid
  10. trisoctahedron
  11. villiaumite
  12. boracite
  13. platiniridium
  14. polydymite
  15. pyrochlore
  16. ralstonite
  17. rhodizite
  1. safflorite
  2. semitesseral
  3. senarmontite
  4. skutterudite
  5. hyoscyamine
  6. analcime
  7. anisometric
  8. anisotrope
  9. garnet
  10. arsenolite
  11. atopite
  12. berzeliite
  13. binnite
  14. bunsenite
  15. chloanthite
  16. cobaltite
  17. danalite
  1. hauerite
  2. hemiholohedral
  3. holohemihedral
  4. icositetrahedron
  5. iodobromite
  6. optic axis of a crystal
  7. isometric line
  8. metacinnabarite
  9. periclase
  10. phenose
  11. picoline
  12. pyrite
  13. common pyrites
  14. double refraction
  15. regular
  16. sperrylite
  17. tetrahexahedron
  1. anisotropic
  2. bornite
  3. diploid
  4. gahnite
  5. hauyne
  6. hexoctahedron
  7. marcasite
  8. perovskite
  9. polymorphism
  10. pyramid
  11. spinel
  12. diploidal
  13. langbeinite
  14. symbol
  15. tristetrahedron
  16. trapezohedron
  17. voltaite
  1. widmannstättian

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  • uselessness See eboy for lots of random, colorful, Japanese-ish isometric goodness. Nov 8, 2007

  • sarra Not to be confused with biometric, as the UK press/political establishment seem to have been doing lately. Nov 8, 2007

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