isothermal

American  

[ahy-suh-thur-muhl] / ˌaɪ səˈθɜr məl /

Or isothermic

adjective

1. occurring at constant temperature.

2. pertaining to an isotherm.

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noun

1. Meteorology. an isotherm.

isothermal British  

/ ˌaɪsəʊˈθɜːməl /

adjective

1. (of a process or change) taking place at constant temperature

2. of or relating to an isotherm

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noun

1. another word for isotherm

isothermal Scientific  

/ ī′sə-thûr′məl /

1. Relating to or indicating equal or constant temperatures.

2. Relating to a process, usually changes of pressure and volume, occurring at a constant temperature and following Boyle's Law.

3. Relating to an isotherm.

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Other Word Forms

• isothermally adverb

Etymology

Origin of isothermal

1820–30; < French isotherme isothermal (< Greek iso- iso- + thérmē heat) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

"Knowledge of Bernoulli's law, the ideal gas law, and isothermal expansion are the three ingredients we baked into a model to explore how this device worked," Lipscombe said.

From Science Daily

"But when it's in that isothermal layer... between the surface and 180 metres... the sound behaves really quite straight."

From BBC

The pilot will also make use of “LAMP”, or loop mediated isothermal amplification, which the government described as a new type of testing technology able to deliver significant volumes of tests.

From Reuters

But there’s another approach to gene-based testing, called isothermal amplification, which is simpler and can work at a fixed temperature.

From The Verge

The authors provided evidence that darobactin and BamA bind to each other directly, using a technique called isothermal titration calorimetry, which measures the heat changes associated with physical interactions between molecules.

From Nature