Etymology

isopleth

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Today it means: A line drawn on a map through all points having the same value of some measurable quantity. Full definition →

Ancient Greek πλῆθος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπλῆθος“a great number”
  2. English todayisopleth

From iso- + Ancient Greek πλῆθος (plêthos, “a great number”).

Words from the same roots

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