kamet
- n a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high)
katsina
- n a city in northern Nigeria; a major center of the Hausa people
italo calvino
- n Italian writer of novels and short stories (born in Cuba) (1923-1987)
isogamy
- n (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of gametes of the same size and structure
isogonal line
- n an imaginary line connecting points on the Earth's surface where the magnetic declination is the same
isogone
- n an imaginary line connecting points on the Earth's surface where the magnetic declination is the same
isogonic line
- n an imaginary line connecting points on the Earth's surface where the magnetic declination is the same
isogram
- n a line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable
isohel
- n an isogram connecting points receiving equal amounts of sunshine
isolation
- n a state of separation between persons or groups
- n a feeling of being disliked and alone
- n the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
- n (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
- n a country's withdrawal from international politics
he opposed a policy of American isolation