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isoperimeter

isoperimeter [ἰσοπερίμετρος] , of equal perimeter. omnium corporum ~rorum spera maximum [v. l. maxima] est Sacrob. Sph. 80; 1271 sententia ‥ patet intellecta expositione hujus vocabuli ysoperimetrum, et dicitur ab idos, quod est forma, et peri, quod est circa, et metros, quod est mensura, quasi omnium formarum circularium mensurabilium maxima Rob. Angl. (II) 153; inter omnes figuras ~as sphera ipsa maxime capit Bacon Maj. I 154; isoperimentrorum Peckham Persp. I 29 (v. dimensionabilis); omnium ysoperimetrorum figura circularis sit capacissima Wycl. Log. III 105; oportet mundum esse sphericum, cum inter omnes figuras ysopometras illa sit capacissima Id. Apost. 139.

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