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isochronism|aɪˈsɒkrənɪz(ə)m|
[f. as isochronal a. + -ism: cf. Gr. χρονίζ-ειν to spend time, continue in time. Cf. F. isochronisme (1735 in Hatz.).]
1. The character or property of being isochronous, or of oscillating or taking place in equal spaces of time.
1770Gentl. Mag. XL. 416 Nothing seemed to stop its isochronism. 1786Bonnycastle Astron. vi. 97 Galileo..is said to have discovered the isochronism of the pendulum. 1812–16Playfair Nat. Phil. (1819) I. 285 Noise and discordant sounds arise from a want of isochronism of vibration. 1834Hand-bk. Nat. Philos. III. Hist. Astron. xx. 104/1 (U.K.S.) The isochronism of spiral steel springs, when used as a balance in watches. 1857Denison Clocks & Locks 5 That peculiarly valuable quality of the pendulum called isochronism, or the disposition to vibrate different arcs in very nearly the same time (provided the arcs are none of them large).
2. Prosody. The character or property of being isochronous.
1942Wellek & Warren Theory of Lit. 166 The artistic rhythm of prose..must not reach an apparent isochronism (that is, a regularity of time intervals between rhythmical accents). 1956H. Whitehall in Kenyon Rev. XVIII. iii. 418 Isochronism is produced not only by accelerating and crushing together the syllables between primary stresses but also by increasing or decreasing the pauses. 1959PMLA LXXIV. 587/1 If isochronism were a general principle, or even an approximate principle, of all English speech, it would clearly be a different thing from meter. 1966M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. 133 Isochronism, a term applied to verse in which the amount of time between two primary stresses tends to be the same, irrespective of the amount of material between them. 1973Studies in Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 31 Hopkins has nowhere upheld a principle of absolute isochronism. |