isotypen.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > population > [noun] > type of
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microcolony1925
thanatocœnosis1953
ecomorph1954
community1957
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micropopulation1966
1881 T. Gill in Smithsonian Rep. 460 The Shrews are isotypes in Europe and North America.
1905 Bull. U.S. National Museum No. 53. 16 Isotypes (equal or like and form): Forms common to different countries; e.g. the Shrews are isotypes in Europe and North America.
2. Mineralogy. Any mineral which is isotypic with another; an assemblage of minerals of which all the members are isotypic with one another.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral structure or appearance > [noun] > crystal structure > mineral or assemblage
isomorph1864
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isotype1901
1901 Mineral. Mag. 13 52 These minerals are placed by F. Rinne in the ‘magnesium type’ of his isotypes.
1943 Science 22 Jan. 99/1 A more complex type formula is necessary to cover the phosphates, arsenates and hydrates which are now recognized as isotypes.
1947 Mineral. Abstr. X. 52 With substitution of Si by other elements various isotypes are illustrated.
3. Botany. A duplicate of the holotype n.
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the world > plants > variety or species > [noun] > an individual in relation to type
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1919 F. W. Pennell in Torreya 19 13 To meet this need [for a term for a duplicate type] I suggest the term isotype.
1943 Rhodora XLV. 485 If a type specimen is lost or unavailable an isotype is in general much more important than a paratype for the interpretation of a name.
1966 Internat. Code Bot. Nomencl. ii. 19 An isotype is any duplicate (part of a single gathering made by a collector at one time) of the holotype.
4. Also Isotype. [ < International system of typographic picture education.] The name of an international picture language devised by O. Neurath (1882–1945), used esp. to display statistical information in a convenient visual form.
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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > artificial or invented language
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Idiom Neutral1903
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Panroman1907
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Ido1908
Mummerset1915
Interlingua1922
Reformed Neutral1922
occidental1926
interlanguage1927
world auxiliary1927
Novial1928
isotype1936
Interglossa1943
Klingon1985
leetspeak1996
leet2001
1936 O. Neurath Internat. Picture Lang. 17 We have made one international picture language..into which statements may be put from all the normal languages of the earth. We have given it the name ‘isotype’.
1945 G. Williams Women & Work 10 Isotype charts..illustrate and elaborate the argument.
1948 Sunday Times 15 Feb. 2/6 A record in powerful and sometimes horrifying images of misery, interrupted by only a few isotypes.
1950 O. Neurath & J. A. Lauwerys Living in Early Times 1 These Isotype symbols..are always kept as simple and clear as possible.
1966 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 792/2 He [sc. O. Neurath] developed the ‘isotype’, a system of visual linguistics... His isotype films, e.g. World of Plenty, attracted wide attention.
1966 M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. Isotype, a system of writing that uses non-phonetic symbols of universal significance, designed as a medium of education, but also to convey information in ready visual form (the picture of one soldier to indicate an army division).
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