isepiptesis

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“His chief object was to trace what he termed the isepipteses (ισος = æqulis, επιπτῃς = advolatus) or the lines of simultaneous arrival, and in the case of 7 species these are laid down on the maps which accompany⟳ his treatise.”

“In the past, arrival times of returning migrants plotted on maps, so-called isochronuous lines (isepipteses, isochrones, isophenes) were shown to match⟳ more or less specific isotherms (Schüz et al., 1971).”

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