Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A line connecting points at which the same events occur simultaneously.
- noun Specifically In hydrol., the line bounding an area of watershed whose river-flow will concentrate in a given time at a central point to form a flood.
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- noun An
isoline on amap orchart connecting points that have the samevalue of aquantity that hasdimension time. - noun mathematics A semicubical parabola
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an isogram connecting points at which something occurs or arrives at the same time
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Examples
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Isochrone Maps in Google Maps - Google Maps Mania links to resources on how to create an isochrone map - i.e., a map that shows travel time from a given point by drawing lines like topographic contours - within the Google Maps environment.
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Our proposal also includes observations of six well-studied globular and open star clusters; these observations will serve to calibrate our photometric indices, provide empirical population templates, and transform the theoretical isochrone libraries into the WFC3 filter system.
SpaceRef Top Stories 2010
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What we can see is a pretty narrow Doldrums crossing point - visible because of the northwards bulge of the isochrone around the Predicted Route.
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I've set the isochrone (the red line running west-to-east) to the afternoon of the 27th, towards the end of the transition zone into the westerly breeze.
bilby commented on the word isochrone
For example a line joining places that are all the same travel time from a certain point.
May 15, 2018