isotherm
Americannoun
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Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
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Also called isothermal line. Physics. a curve on which every point represents the same temperature.
noun
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a line on a map linking places of equal temperature
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physics a curve on a graph that connects points of equal temperature
Etymology
Origin of isotherm
First recorded in 1855–60; back formation from isothermal
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Weather and Climate - Middle School
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The isotherm of zero dips far south across northern Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee; while in the upper Mississippi and Missouri Valleys the temperatures were from 20 to 40 degrees below zero.
From The Mentor: The Weather Serial Number 110; 1 July, 1916 by Charles Fitzhugh Talman
The southern limit of its distribution approximates the isotherm of forty-five degrees.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed
The isotherm which touches the southern limits of France passes midway between the source and mouth of the river.
From The French in the Heart of America by John Finley
Its summit displays a glittering ice-cap, and we are certain to find the proper isotherm by climbing its umbrageous sides.
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
At that distant epoch the sub-arctic breezes must have been blowing pretty stiffly in our present temperate latitudes, and these forms would have been constrained, in due time, to seek a more congenial isotherm.
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
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