单词 | isochronous |
释义 | isochronousadj. 1. a. Taking place in or occupying equal times; equal in metrical length; equal in duration, or in intervals of occurrence, as the vibrations of a pendulum; characterized by or relating to vibrations or motions of equal duration; vibrating uniformly, as a pendulum. spec. in Prosody, equal in metrical length. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective] > synchronized or isochronous synchronical1660 synchronous1677 isochronal1680 isochron1697 isochronous1706 isochronic1780 isochronical1794 synchronal1876 synchronic1892 in-phase1914 synchronized1919 phased1929 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > accent > stressed > occurrence of stresses at equal intervals isochronous1784 stress-timed1945 isochronic1956 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Isochrone The Vibrations or Swings of a Pendulum, or hanging Weight, that are made in the same Space of Time, are said to be Isochronous. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 119 Vibratory Motions of different Lengths can be isochronous only according to one Law. 1784 J. B. Seale Anal. Greek Metres (L.) The tribrach and iambic are isochronous. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 31 The poetical measures..when sung in this drawling and isochronous manner..afford the ear no pleasure. 1822 R. Southey Poet. Wks. (1853) Pref. 23/2 If the English verse is not isochronous with the Latin, it must be shorter. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 516 The great object of the escapement is to preserve this isochronous motion of the pendulum. 1857 C. Patmore in N. Brit. Rev. 27 149 A metre which, totally abandoning the element of natural syllabic quantity, takes the isochronous bar for the metrical integer. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 126 A balance spring is said to be isochronous when it causes both the long and the short arcs of the balance to be performed in the same time. 1942 J. C. Pope Rhythm of Beowulf 9 Isochronous measures are the rule..and it is easy to produce them in Beowulf by means of limited quantitative variation. 1948 Mod. Philol. 46 75 There is..no reason to suppose that, if the Beowulf was chanted to a real musical accompaniment, the lines were therefore delivered in isochronous groups. 1971 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 1179/3 Its technique of isochronous rhythm—a metrical sequence which remains constant for a given part, though the pitch relationships change—is comparable with the Oriental tala. b. Taking place (vibrating, etc.) in the same time, or at the same intervals of time, as something else; equal in duration (vibration-period, etc.) to or with something. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective] > synchronized or isochronous > isochronous with or to isochronous1776 1776 T. Cavallo in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 410 The snappings..seemed at first isochronous with the shocks I had received. 1854 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. (1874) 415 The tumour..offers a pulsation to the touch isochronous with the arterial pulse. 1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 129 There follows..a series of oscillations, which are isochronous with the intermittence of the current. 2. Palaeontology. [ < German isochron (E. Mojsisovics Die Cephalopoden der Hallstätter Kalke (1893) II. 5).] Originating or formed at the same period. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective] > coeval or going back to the same date contemporanean1575 coetaneous1608 coetanean1625 contemporaneous1645 coetany1649 coeval1652 coeve1659 coevous1660 contemporary1663 connascent1805 connate1819 isochronous1895 1895 S. S. Buckman in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LI. 457 Mojsisovics has called such cases, between non-contemporaneous ammonites, ‘heterochronous convergence’. I would rather apply the term ‘heterochronous homœomorphy’ to the phenomenon; and the term ‘isochronous homœomorphy’ would describe the resemblance between the contemporaneous Buckmani with its derivatives. 1913 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 69 166 Isochronous and heterochronous homœomorphy state whether the homœomorphous species lived in the same or at different times. 1952 R. C. Moore et al. Invertebr. Fossils vi. 218/1 Such contemporaneous or near-contemporaneous forms he [sc. Buckman] designated as isochronous homeomorphs. Derivatives iˈsochronously adv. in an isochronous manner; in equal times. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adverb] > isochronously or in phase isochronously1749 synchronically1749 synchronously1822 in phase (with)1891 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 238 The Membrane will be fitted to vibrate isochronously with the several Tones. 1833 C. Wheatstone in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 596 The resultants of very simple modes of vibration, oscillating isochronously. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1706 |
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