isologous

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek [Term?]

Adjective

isologous (comparative more isologous, superlative most isologous)

  1. (chemistry) Having similar proportions, similar relations, or similar differences of composition; said specifically of groups or series which differ by a constant difference.
    Ethane, ethylene, an acetylene, or their analogous compounds form an isologous series.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “isologous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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