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Definition of Isohyet
1. Noun. A line of equal or constant rainfall on a graph or chart, such as a weather map. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Isohyet
1. a line on a map connecting points having equal rainfall [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Isohyet
Literary usage of Isohyet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Distribution of Rainfall Over the Land by Andrew John Herbertson (1901)
"Baltic the rainfall diminishes, and this again forms the characteristic drier
region on the lee side of the mountains. The 50 mm. (2 inch) isohyet no longer ..."
2. Australian Social Development by Clarence Hunter Northcott (1918)
"In New South Wales the wheat belt coincides roughly with the twenty-inch isohyet,
in South Australia it follows the thirteen-inch isohyet, ..."
3. Lost Crops of Africa: Grains edited by F. R. Ruskin (1999)
"12 The northern limit of sorghum in West Africa is around the 375-mm isohyet;
that of pearl millet is further north—around the 250-mm isohyet ..."
4. Diversity, Globalization, and the Ways of Nature by Danilo J. Anton (1995)
"This isohyet (a line on a map joining points of similar precipitation) is the
approximate boundary between the ..."
5. Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters by Society of American Foresters (1905)
"Turning to the next group, stations between the 15-inch seasonal isohyet and the
border of the Eastern Forest, Bis- mark, North Dakota had an average ..."
6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"... may be subdivided by the isohyet of 30 millimetres io the driest month into
Al, the equatorial region of lianas, Mr. Scott-Elliot's " wet jungles," with ..."
7. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1906)
"... thinning out with decrease of rain ; the railways having a thick network on
rich areas, and stopping short with the isohyet of twenty inches per year. ..."
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