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#84243
10/22/2002 7:01 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Exoteric is easy. So is esoteric. But I found "isoteric" in a number of sites, but could nowhere find its definition. Can you? In some of the science sites, it seemed likely that it referred to proteins having some molecules arranged in different groupings.
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#84244
10/22/2002 11:10 PM
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Nope, no isoteric in OneLook.com, but I found a first cousin:
"isosteric. Having identical valence electron configurations. "
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#84245
10/23/2002 12:06 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Maybe isoteric means that it is understood by half of the people, and the other half find it over their heads...
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#84246
10/24/2002 12:05 PM
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old hand
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Or maybe it means that everyone misunderstands it equally! 
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#84247
10/24/2002 1:04 PM
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everyone misunderstands it equally!
I like it, Bean!
Research has shown that the -ter- part of esoteric and exoteric comes from the Greek lexeme for comparison. Thus esoteric is more inner and exoteric is more outer. Isoteric is more equal?
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#84248
10/27/2002 7:34 AM
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newbie
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Isoteric is more equal
Sounds Orwellian to me.
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