Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by or indicating equal pressure; isobaric.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Isobaric; denoting equal pressure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Thermodynamics) Having equal pressure.
- adjective lines showing, in a diagram, the relations of temperature and volume, when the elastic force is constant; -- called also
isobars .
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- adjective
isobaric
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[iso– + Greek piestos, able to be compressed (from piezein, to press tight; see sed- in Indo-European roots) + –ic.]
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