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isobases

isobases is the plural of isobase.

Meaning of isobase

Noun

isobase (plural isobases)

  1. A line drawn on a map or chart connecting places of equal or constant land upheaval or subsidence.
    • Assuming their zero isobase and assuming also that they have correctly identified the beaches, the Jamieson hypothesis is decidedly not favored by their field observations.1920, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, volume 31

Questions about isobases

What is isobases the plural of?
Isobases is the plural of isobase.

Words near isobases in the dictionary

  1. isobaricity
  2. isobarometric
  3. isobars
  4. isobaryonic
  5. isobase
  6. isobases
  7. isobath
  8. isobathic
  9. isobaths
  10. isobathytherm
  11. isobathytherms

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