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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
isometry is a noun meaning "the growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a one-to-one mapping of one metric space into another metric space that preserves the distances between each pair of points
“the isometries of the cube”
equality of elevation above sea level
equality of measure (e.g., equality of height above sea level or equality of loudness etc.)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for isometry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.