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“They went wherever they wanted to go, scoring from the paint, floaters, isos, offensive rebounds, free throws, 3s,” said Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo, who had 34 points and 13 rebounds.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2023

In technical terms, these groups are connected by an “isomorphism,” a term whose etymology—from the Greek isos, meaning “equal,” and morphe, meaning “form”—indicates its meaning.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2021

The Lakers’ offensive sets were monotonous in the extreme – Kobe isos near the elbow that lead to either penetration toward the hoop or a wild fadeaway jumper.

From The Guardian • Apr. 14, 2016

Such zones or divisions of the land, ocean, or atmosphere, which have an equal degree of mean annual warmth, are said to be isothermal, from ισος, isos, equal, and θερμη, therme, heat.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

The 1833 edition has no title but this quotation from Sappho prefixed:— 'Phainetai moi kaenos isos theoisin Emmen anaer'—SAPPHO.

From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton