Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as isoperimetrical.

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  • adjective geometry Having the same perimeter; applied to the problem of finding a plane figure of the largest possible area whose boundary has a specified length.

Etymologies

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iso- +‎ perimetric

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Examples

  • a child the relations of contours and surfaces by having to choose every day isoperimetric cakes among cakes of every geometrical figure.

    Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745

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