[???s??'m?tr?k]
¦ adjective
1. of or having equal dimensions.
2. Physiology (of muscular action) in which tension is developed without contraction.
3. denoting a method of perspective drawing in which the three principal dimensions are represented by three axes 120° apart.
4. Mathematics (of a transformation) without change of shape or size.
Derivatives
isometrically adverb
isometry noun ??'s?m?tri
Origin
C19: from Gk
isometria 'equality of measure' (from
isos 'equal' +
-metria 'measuring') +
-ic.