"Isochronous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... against a circle of holes two currents of air in opposite directions, the note obtained with a single current is very much weakened, if the two currents reach the holes simultaneously. If the impulses are not isochronous, the intensity ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 • Various
... October, 1831, three hundred and fifty years after Galileo had noticed the isochronous vibrations of the lamps, creative thought and its currency had so far increased that Faraday was wondering what would happen if he mounted a disk of copper between the poles of a horseshoe magnet. As the disk revolved an electric current was produced. This would doubtless ...
— The Mind in the Making - The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform • James Harvey Robinson
... a tribrach as the isochronous substitute for the Trochee [macron breve]. N. B. If our accent, a quality of sound were actually equivalent to the Quantity in the Greek [macron breve macron], or dactyl [macron breve breve] at least. But it is not so, accent shortens syllables: thus Sp[i]r[)i]t, sprite; H[)o]n[)e]y, ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
