Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
homodromous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.
- adjective (Mech.) Moving in the same direction; -- said of a lever or pulley in which the resistance and the actuating force are both on the same side of the fulcrum or axis.
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