Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Marked by or indicating equal pressure; isobaric.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Isobaric; denoting equal pressure.

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

  • adjective (Thermodynamics) Having equal pressure.
  • adjective lines showing, in a diagram, the relations of temperature and volume, when the elastic force is constant; -- called also isobars.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective isobaric

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[iso– + Greek piestos, able to be compressed (from piezein, to press tight; see sed- in Indo-European roots) + –ic.]

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