"isogram" meaning in English

See isogram in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: isograms [plural]
Etymology: From iso- + -gram. The "contour line" sense was proposed in 1889 by Francis Galton. Etymology templates: {{af|en|iso-|-gram}} iso- + -gram Head templates: {{en-noun}} isogram (plural isograms)
  1. A word in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once.
    Sense id: en-isogram-en-noun-DyYLo5d~
  2. A line on a map or chart, such as a contour line, joining points that have the same value for some quantity. Categories (topical): Visualization Synonyms: isoline, isopleth, isarithm
    Sense id: en-isogram-en-noun-MidNRWl2 Disambiguation of Visualization: 22 78 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with iso-, English terms suffixed with -gram, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 82 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with iso-: 21 79 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -gram: 22 78 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 20 80 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 19 81
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: isogramy

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2017 January 1, Florian Breit, “The Distribution of English Isograms in Google Ngrams and the British National Corpus”, in Bangor University, page 2:",
          "text": "For convenience, we can refer to an isogram of order n as an n-isogram. The examples in (2a) are 1-isograms, (2b) 2-isograms, and (2c) 3-isograms. Second- and third-order isograms are also sometimes referred to as pair and trio isograms respectively, but I will not use these terms here.",
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        "A line on a map or chart, such as a contour line, joining points that have the same value for some quantity."
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          "word": "isoline"
        },
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          "word": "isopleth"
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          "word": "isarithm"
        }
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          "ref": "2017 January 1, Florian Breit, “The Distribution of English Isograms in Google Ngrams and the British National Corpus”, in Bangor University, page 2:",
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      ],
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          "contour line",
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        ],
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        ]
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        {
          "word": "isoline"
        },
        {
          "word": "isopleth"
        },
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          "word": "isarithm"
        }
      ]
    }
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    "Francis Galton"
  ],
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}

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