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Definition of Isocryme
1. n. A line connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean temperature in the coldest month of the year.
Definition of Isocryme
1. Noun. A line connecting points on the Earth's surface having the same mean temperature in the coldest month of the year. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Isocryme
1. a contour line of equal temperature during the cold [n -S]
Medical Definition of Isocryme
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Isocryme
Literary usage of Isocryme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1854)
"isocryme of 35° F.—This line has a bend between Norway and Iceland like that of
44°, and from the same cause, —the influence of the Gulf Stream. ..."
2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1854)
"We thence deduce, that the mean position of the isocryme of 74° F. is along the
parallel of 2(P, this being the average between the means for the North and ..."
3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1882)
"The isocryme nearly coincides with Cape Cod on the eastern coast, and the Straits
of Fuca on the western. Doubtless its limits will require considerable ..."
4. Corals and Coral Islands by James Dwight Dana (1890)
"The present isocryme of 44° F., as drawn on the chart of the world accompanying
this volume, has approximately the course which that of 68° F. probably had ..."
5. University of California Publications in Botany by University of California, Berkeley (1903)
"... we find reason for believing that the isocryme of 5° C. and the ... southern limit
of the Upper Boreal Region; that the isocryme of 10° C. and the ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1872)
"... 120), pushes the southern isocryme of 68°—the Coral-Sea boundary—to the north
of the Equator, between the South American coast and the Galapagos, which, ..."
7. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"... isocryme of 68° F. (see map, page 47), accordingly, would have had nearly the
position of the line of 44° F. in existing seas, but with a little less ..."
8. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1876)
"... isocryme of 68° F., accordingly, would have had nearly the position of the
present line of 44° F., but with a little less northing and more leaning to ..."
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