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isochrone
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English
Etymology
Noun
isochrone (plural isochrones)
- An isoline on a map or chart connecting points that have the same value for some time-related variable.
- isochrones of urban development, isochrones of equal travel time
- 2013, Raymond S. Bradley, Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary, page 420:
- Isopoll maps can be reinterpreted to show the migration of a particular genus or ecotone through time by isochrones (equal time lines).
- (mathematics) A semicubical parabola.
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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
isochrone (plural isochrones)
Further reading
- “isochrone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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