different between isometric vs isometry

English

Alternative forms

• isometrical (dated)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (isométr?tos, “equal in measure”), from ???? (ísos, “equal”) + ?????? (métron, “measure”). See also: iso- +? -metric.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a?.s???m?t.??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?a?.so??m?t.??k/, /?a?.s??m?t.??k/

Adjective

isometric (comparative more isometric, superlative most isometric)

1. Of, or exhibiting equality in dimensions.
2. Of, or being a geometric system of three equal axes lying at right angles to each other (especially in crystallography).
3. (physiology) Of or involving muscular contraction against resistance in which the length of the muscle remains the same. See also: Wikipedia:isometric exercise
   • 2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 10:

     One of the most effective isometric exercises for the deskbound is to sit up quite straight and tighten the large muscles of the buttocks, holding for a count of eight, then release.

   Antonyms include tonic movements auxotonic and isotonic which are divided into concentric and eccentric.

4. (physics, of a thermodynamic process) Taking place at constant volume because of being confined by rigid boundaries.

Derived terms

• isometric perspective
• isometric projection

Translations

Noun

isometric (plural isometrics)

1. A line connecting isometric points.

Anagrams

• eroticism, meroistic, microsite

English

Etymology

iso- +? -metry

Noun

isometry (plural isometries)

1. (mathematics) A function between metric spaces (or on a single metric space) having the property that the distance between two images is equal to the distance between their preimages.
   • Isometry is to metric spaces what isomorphism is to groups.

Related terms

• isometric
• isometer
• isometrograph

Derived terms

• quasiisometry

Translations

Anagrams

• merosity