Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not isotropic.
- adj. Physics Having properties that differ according to the direction of measurement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not having the same properties in all directions; not isotropic; æolotropic. All crystals except those of the isometric system are anisotropic with respect to light.
- In botany, a term applied by Sachs to organs which respond differently or unequally to external influences.
- Equivalent forms are anisotropal, anisotrope, and anisotropous.
- Having predetermined axes: opposed to isotropic.
Wiktionary
- adj. physics Having properties that differ according to the direction of measurement; exhibiting anisotropy.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not invariant with respect to direction
Etymologies
- aniso- + -tropic (Wiktionary)
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“The universe around 500my after the big bang has anisotropic and inhomogeneous distributions which are amplified due to some Virial process where accumulated matter has a kinetic energy equal to half the potential and due to “friction.””
“Maybe even that inflation was anisotropic, as Lotty and Mark and I contemplated.”
“Bayesian analysis of sparse anisotropic universe models and application to the 5-yr WMAP data”
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