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Definition of Isopiestic
1. a. Having equal pressure.
Definition of Isopiestic
1. Adjective. isobaric ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Isopiestic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Isopiestic
1. Origin: Iso- + Gr. To press] Having equal pressure. Isopiestic lines, lines showing, in a diagram, the relations of temperature and volume, when the elastic force is constant. Synonym: isobars. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Isopiestic
Literary usage of Isopiestic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Mechanics by Louis Adolphe Martin (1916)
"isopiestic Change of State.— EXERCISE 40. Write the equations governing isopiestic
... Describe the pv-curve for isopiestic change of state and compute the ..."
2. The Gas-engine: A Treatise on the Internal-combustion Engine Using Gas by Frederick Remsen Hutton (1908)
"Compression Cycle with isopiestic Heating.— In this third group of cycles are
included those in which the heating is effected at constant pressure. ..."
3. The Gas-engine: A Treatise on the Internal-combustion Engine Using Gas by Frederick Remsen Hutton (1907)
"pc—pd pa(rr^- — Xl~r) MEV /£- J\ - ' ' 1 P.(r- RT Tc- Ta Ta(rr-lX-i) 185.
Compression Cycle with isopiestic Heating.—In this third group of cycles are ..."
4. Heat and Heat-engines: A Study of the Principles which Underlie the by Frederick Remsen Hutton (1899)
"isopiestic Lines, or Isobars.—When the change of condition in a gas is a change
of its volume without change in its pressure, and F1o.43. It FIG. ..."
5. Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide by Frank Duncan Graham (1921)
"isopiestic line or isobar. • The isothermal and adiabatic lines shown in the ...
Such a line is called an isopiestic line or isobar, and corresponds to BC, ..."
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