monometricadj.
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1837 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. 348 Primary form: monometric.
1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 288 The monometric, regular, or cubic system.—The crystals of this division have three equal axes, all placed at right angles to each other.
1878 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 1 182 The monometric system, whose axes are the axes of x, y and z, admits of the transformations a), b), c), d), e) and f).
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monometric1892
1892 Cent. Mag. June 185 [Swinburne's] serene verse, impressive even in the monometric dialogue.
3. Designating, involving, or having only one variable factor, measurement, or dimension (in various senses); (Mathematics and Physics) relating to, having, or designating a single metric (metric n.1 3).
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1927 Jrnl. Philos. 24 325 Reality simply may not be..homogeneous or monometric, but rather would seem to be in some sense quite dual.
1962 Current Anthropol. 3 34 So-called brachycephalization of a population..as the result of selection directed against dolichocephaly conceived as a concrete (monometric?) feature.
1985 Austral. Jrnl. Marine & Freshwater Res. 36 87 Tesseropora rosea of eastern Australia..has monometric growth with orifice enlargement by erosion.
1988 Canad. Jrnl. Physics 66 (title) 197 Monometric and bimetric theories of gravity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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