Word Finder - isochronous

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Happening at regular intervals; isochronal.

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Happening at the same time; simultaneous.

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Of or pertaining to the use of clocks derived from the same clock reference.

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Their entire national telephone network is isochronous, with a clock distribution tree radiating from a single, protected cesium reference clock.

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Of or pertaining to data associated with time sensitive application.

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These packets belong to an isochronous voice application and need priority handling.

As an additional claim to remembrance, he was the first to solve Leibnitz's problem of the isochronous curve (Acta Eruditorum, 1690).

The determination of the true relation between the length of a pendulum and the time of its oscillation; the invention of the theory of evolutes; the discovery, hence ensuing, that the cycloid is its own evolute, and is strictly isochronous; the ingenious although practically inoperative idea of correcting the "circular error" of the pendulum by applying cycloidal cheeks to clocks - were all contained in this remarkable treatise.

In so far as the vibrations may be regarded as isochronous, the distance between consecutive corresponding points of the recurrent figure, or, as it may be called, the wavelength of the figure, is directly proportional to the velocity of the jet, i.e.