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How to pronounce “isthmus”
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Pronunciation guide for isthmus
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of isthmus with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 3 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Jeff Bezos: The electricity metaphor 19 minutes
They would take a ship down to Panama, across the isthmus,
- Definition summary
- (geography) A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses.
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How to pronounce isthmus
Jeff Bezos: The electricity metaphor 19 minutes

They would take a ship down to Panama, across the isthmus,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “isthmus”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (geography) A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses.
- (anatomy, botany) Any such narrow part connecting two larger structures.
- (graph theory) An edge in a graph whose deletion increases the number of connected components of the graph.
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