isothermal

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We find that the flow is indeed non-isothermal but that temperature has little effect upon the swelling ratio.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or indicating equal or constant temperatures.
  2. adjective Of or designating changes of pressure and volume at constant temperature.
  3. adjective Of or relating to an isotherm.

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  • Alternatively, transport proteins can be assayed for interactions with ligands by using techniques such as isothermal titration calorimetry, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, or surface plasmon resonance. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It is not a single, homogeneous, isothermal layer. —  RealClimate
  • Within a blackbody material with real index of refraction n, with an isothermal region of infinite optical thickness, or an infinite isothermal expanse of blackbodies embeded within some material with index of refraction n, the blackbody fluxes and intensities within the material will be proportional to n^2. —  RealClimate
  • If there is an antireflective interface with a vacuum (n = 1) or air (n ~ = 1), Total internal reflection keeps the flux and intensity of blackbody radiation escaping the material across the interface equal to (or very nearly so for air) the standard blackbody values if the isothermal material is thick enough to block any radiation from behind it. —  RealClimate
  • At wavelengths where there is just sufficient opacity, the atmosphere looks like a surface on a large scale, although it will not radiate as a perfect blackbody because it is not isothermal across the visible depth - but at sufficiently high opacity, individual nearly-isothermal layers of air will act, radiatively, like surfaces. —  RealClimate
 

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  1. from Greek ἴσος, equal, + θέρμη, heat (see isotherm), + -al.
 

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/aɪsəˈθərməl/
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