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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A line, imaginary or drawn upon a map or chart of any region, connecting points at which the temperature is the same during some specified coldest portion of the year.
  • noun In hydrogeology, a line joining places where the mean minimum temperatures of the ocean water are the same.
  • Having equal degrees of cold or equal low temperatures at any time or under any condition; having equal freezing temperatures.
  • Having similar physical properties at specific low temperatures.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Phys. Geog.) Pertaining to, having the nature of, or illustrating, an isocryme

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  • adjective Relating to isocrymes.

Etymologies

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isocryme +‎ -al

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