Abbott's American Watchmaker and Jeweler

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Isochronal

Uniform in time; moving in equal time. When the long and short arcs of a balance are caused to be performed in the same time by means of a hairspring, that spring is said to be an isochronal one, or isochronous. When the vibrations of a pendulum are all of the same duration, no matter through what extent of arc the pendulum moves, the vibrations are isochronal.

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