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Meaning of ISOPIESTIC

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\I`so*pi*es"tic\, a. [Iso- + Gr. ? to press.]
(Thermodynamics)
Having equal pressure.
{Isopiestic lines}, lines showing, in a diagram, the
   relations of temperature and volume, when the elastic
   force is constant; -- called also {isobars}.
 
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