isochronous
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Several studies show that humans are attracted in particular to isochronous patterns, which is a rhythm where all the intervals between events are equal like a metronome.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 16, 2024
The first is isochronous, in which intervals between notes are equidistant.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023
Pied butcherbirds “seem to prefer some song rhythms over others,” such as isochronous rhythm, Mr. Xing said.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023
Appetite however was gone, all seemed amazed to sit down to dinner at such an unusual hour; the jaws had not that isochronous measure which announces a regular business.
From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette
Galileo published his discovery of the isochronous property of the pendulum in 1639.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 by Chambers, William
