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Definition of Isotherms

1. isotherm [n] - See also: isotherm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Isotherms

Literary usage of Isotherms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"the loch—hence the utility of a study of the motion of the isotherms, for they are nothing but these hypothetical watertight partitions made visible by ..."

2. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1919)
"Similarly there may be monthly isotherms, daily isotherms, etc. A map showing the distribution of isotherms for a year, a season, a month, or a day, ..."

3. Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day by Ralph Abercromby (1887)
"How DIURNAL MODIFY GENERAL isotherms. Now, assuming this typical distribution of heat, we can readily see how the diurnal range of temperature modifies any ..."

4. Modern Geography for High Schools by Rollin D. Salisbury, Harlan Harland Barrows, Walter Sheldon Tower (1913)
"The courses of isotherms, (1) The isotherms are roughly parallel to the ... This shows some relation between the courses of isotherms and latitude; ..."

5. Modern Geography for High Schools by Rollin D. Salisbury, Harlan Harland Barrows, Walter Sheldon Tower (1913)
"The courses of isotherms, (i) The isotherms are roughly parallel to the ... This shows some relation between the courses of isotherms and latitude; ..."

6. Meteorology, Weather, and Methods of Forecasting, Description of by Thomas Russell (1895)
"isotherms. — A similar graphical representation of temperature over a ... On the United States weather- the isotherms are represented on the same map with ..."

7. Manual of Physical Geography by Frederick Valentine Emerson (1909)
"isotherms IN CYCLONES AND ANTICYCLONES Copy the isotherms in several well-marked ... Do the isotherms pass through a cyclone in an east-west direction ? ..."

8. A Meteorological Treatise on the Circulation and Radiation in the by Frank Hagar Bigelow (1915)
"The Normal and the Local isotherms in Cyclones and Anticyclones The isotherms ... Lay a chart containing the normal isotherms over the observed map and draw ..."

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