plural of island

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of island

The smallest state of the United States, formerly officially State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. / The official name of Aquidneck Island.

(physics) Any of two or more forms of an element where the atoms have the same number of protons, but a different number of neutrons within their nuclei. Thus, isotopes have the same atomic number but a different mass number.

(topology, transitive) To define or demonstrate an isotopy of (one map with another).

A line on a graph or chart, such as a weather map, along which all the points have the same temperature.

(meteorology) A line drawn on a map or chart connecting places of equal or constant pressure. / (thermodynamics) A set of points or conditions at constant pressure.

A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses. / (anatomy) Any such narrow part connecting two larger structures.

(colloquial, rhetorical question) A rhetorical question in response to a question to which the answer is an emphatic yes.

(politics) Any issue, such as inflation or prices, that affects ordinary people in their daily lives.