Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
isochronal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Same as
isochronal .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective happening at
regular intervals - adjective happening at the same
time ;isochronal - adjective computing of or pertaining to the use of clocks derived from the same clock reference
- adjective computing of or pertaining to data associated with time sensitive application
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective equal in duration or interval
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is what is called isochronous vibration -- the passing through unequal arcs in equal periods of time.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 Various 1836
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The cycloidal pendulum, also called the isochronous pendulum (from the Greek isochrones, occurring at equal intervals of time), invented by Chris - taan Huygens about 350 years ago, consists of a small mass P (we called it a weighted ball before) suspended from the point O by means of a string ∗ By Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman.
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The new Profinet functions such as isochronous mode, Shared Device and the Media Redundancy Protocol have been implemented in Simatic WinAC RTX (F) 2010.
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The new Profinet functions such as isochronous mode, Shared Device and the Media Redundancy Protocol have been implemented in Simatic WinAC RTX (F) 2010.
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Firewire is "isochronous", basically meaning that you can pump "clocked" data though it in real time.
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The new Profinet functions such as isochronous mode, Shared Device and the Media Redundancy Protocol have been implemented in Simatic WinAC RTX (F) 2010.
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UWB has built-in quality of service settings that allow a device to ask for specific latency and error correction on an "isochronous" channel -- that's real time data in the case of streaming audio and video.
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UWB has built-in quality of service settings that allow a device to ask for specific latency and error correction on an "isochronous" channel -- that's real time data in the case of streaming audio and video.
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It handles all standard USB transfers such as isochronous, interrupt, control and bulk.
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UWB has built-in quality of service settings that allow a device to ask for specific latency and error correction on an "isochronous" channel -- that's real time data in the case of streaming audio and video.
chained_bear commented on the word isochronous
In paleontology, "Originating or formed at the same period." (OED)
September 5, 2008