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Meaning Of 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.