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Noun: isochronism
  1. The property of occurring regularly at equal time intervals, of maintaining a constant period or interval, despite variations in other measurable factors in the same system.
    "Galileo's discovery was that the period of swing of a pendulum is independent of its amplitude--the arc of the swing--the isochronism of the pendulum."

Derived forms: isochronisms

Type of: property

Encyclopedia: Isochronism