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isostatic, a.|aɪsəʊˈstætɪk|
[f. as prec. + Gr. στατικός: see static.]
1. Pertaining to, produced by, or characterized by isostasy.
1889[see isostasy]. 1890in Cent. Dict. 1893Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Survey 1891–2 ii. 280 During the period of sedimentation, which ultimately set up isostatic adjustment, there had been continuous shrinkage of a nucleus cooling beneath the accumulating strata. 1927Peake & Fleure Apes & Men v. 80 There may have been a slight compensating, or as it is called isostatic, uprise in Denmark and other regions around the margin of the ice sheet. 1937Proc. Prehist. Soc. III. 181 The isostatic emergence of the land from the sea since the last glacial maximum. 1944A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xi. 189 While the crust was being thus unloaded by denudation, slow isostatic uplift must have been continuously in progress. 1955Antiquity XXIX. 181 The complex eustatic and isostatic movements which determine the part played by land movements on one hand and changes of sea-level on the other. 1960[see isostatically adv. a]. 1960B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. xiv. 311 Large ice sheets caused an isostatic depression of the areas they occupied and a subsequent rise as the ice melted away.
2. Performed under or involving conditions in which equal pressure is applied from all directions.
1957Ceramic News Apr. 20 (heading) Unique ‘isostatic process’ marks manufacture of Coors famous high density grinding media. 1965Hove & Riley Ceramics for Adv. Technologies iii. 79 In isostatic pressing, the powder material is compacted under uniform pressure. 1967M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World vi. 163 (caption) New ceramic materials demand new forming techniques, such as this isostatic press for making ceramic spark plug insulators. |