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Definition of Isocrymes
1. isocryme [n] - See also: isocryme
Lexicographical Neighbors of Isocrymes
Literary usage of Isocrymes
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)
"The effect on the other isocrymes of the Atlantic is very remarkable. We perceive,
in the first place, that the most southern point of each of these ..."
2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1854)
"and south of the equator, we may arrive at the mean position of the several
isocrymes, and thereby discover, on a grander scale, the influence of the ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... isocrymes " of 68°, that is tbe lines which pass over water which has a mean
temperature of 68° during the coldest months of the year, He, according to ..."
4. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"The northern and southern " isocrymes" of 68°, that is the lines which pass over
water which has a mean temperature of 68 during the coldest months of the ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"Provinces, subdivisions of regions according to mean winter temperatures, in
practise by isocrymes, 5° apart or less; IV. Districts, subdivisions under ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... the minimal absolute altitude which the animals need as the most important
point, and constructed his isocrymes, lines of equal lowest temperature. ..."
7. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1880)
"The oceanic zone between the isothermal lines (or isocrymes) of 88° F., which is
colored pale yellow, is (hat over which the temperature is favorable for ..."
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