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Definition of Isometrics
1. Noun. Muscle-building exercises (or a system of musclebuilding exercises) involving muscular contractions against resistance without movement (the muscles contracts but the length of the muscle does not change).
Generic synonyms: Exercise, Exercising, Physical Exercise, Physical Exertion, Workout
Definition of Isometrics
1. Noun. (plural of isometric) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Isometrics
1. [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Isometrics
Literary usage of Isometrics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Drawing by George Frederick Blessing, Lewis Andrew Darling (1912)
"isometrics are also especially useful in illustrating shop processes and methods,
and certain manufacturing firms operating under the so-called "scientific ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"Now, although any law relating to the liquid state would be welcome, these volume
isometrics :ire particularly so. In the geology of the earth's crust, ..."
3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1898)
"For solid metals the isometrics are of a different order. Another line of research
for liquids to which 1 attach supreme importance has only just been begun ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"Fitzgerald, reasoning from Ramsay and Young's results, then proved that for such
liquids as possessed straight isometrics specific heat is a temperature ..."
5. The Theory of Heat by Thomas Preston (1894)
"635, we have <t> = C, log T + R log B + const (1) and consequently if the volume
is constant this gives for the equation of the isometrics on the r<f> ..."
6. The Theory of Heat by Thomas Preston (1904)
"(isometrics) so that they are a system of similar logarithmic curves. So also
equation (1) may be written in the form <t> ..."
7. The Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs by Josiah Willard Gibbs (1906)
"In both the diagrams which we are now comparing, they will be straight and parallel
to the axis of abscissas. The form of the isometrics and ..."
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