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Isotherm   Listen
noun
Isotherm  n.  
1.
(Phys. Geog.) A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface having the same temperature. This may be the temperature for a given time of observation, or the mean temperature for a year or other period. Also, a similar line based on the distribution of temperature in the ocean.
2.
(Physics) A line on a graph connecting points representing states having the same temperature; an isothermal line.






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"Isotherm" Quotes from Famous Books



... Eskimos, adopting their clothes, food, fuel, dwellings, and mode of travel. Intense cold has checked both native and Russian development over that major portion of Siberia lying north of the mean annual isotherm of degree C. (32 degrees F.); and it has had a like effect in the corresponding part of Canada. (Compare maps pages 8 and 9.) It allows these sub-arctic lands scant resources and a population of less than two to the ...
— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple



Words linked to "Isotherm" :   weather map, isothermal, meteorology, weather chart, isarithm, isopleth, isogram



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