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is- - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'is-' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Is-
- See Iso-.
- A prefix or combining form, indicating identity, or equality; the same numerical value; as in isopod, isomorphous, isochromatic.
- Applied to certain compounds having the same composition but different properties; as in isocyanic.
- Applied to compounds of certain isomeric series in whose structure one carbon atom, at least, is connected with three other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with neo- and normal; as in isoparaffine; isopentane.

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