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Isoetales
- noun - aquatic or marsh-growing fern allies; known to have existed since the Cenozoic; sometimes included in Lycopodiales
Isogamete
- noun - either of a pair of conjugating gametes of the same size and structure
Isogamies
- noun - (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of gametes of the same size and structure
Isogonism
- - The quality of having similar sexual zooids or gonophores and dissimilar hydrants; -- said of certain hydroids.
Isography
- - Imitation of another's handwriting.
Isolating
- verb - obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
- place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
- relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles
- separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
- set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
Isolation
- noun - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
- a country's withdrawal from international politics; "he opposed a policy of American isolation"
- a feeling of being disliked and alone
- a state of separation between persons or groups
- the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
Isologous
- - Having similar proportions, similar relations, or similar differences of composition; -- said specifically of groups or series which differ by a constant difference; as, ethane, ethylene, and acetylene, or their analogous compounds, form an isologous series.
Isomerase
- noun - an enzyme that catalyzes its substrate to an isomeric form