Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not isotropic.
- adjective Physics Having properties that differ based on the direction of measurement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having predetermined axes: opposed to isotropic.
- 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective physics Having
properties thatdiffer according to thedirection ofmeasurement ; exhibitinganisotropy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not invariant with respect to direction
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It varies enormously in anisotropic temperature, electron temperature and ion differences.
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High water effects, full Bloom and Depth of Field, 50,000 particles, all settings at High or Very high detail, 4x anisotropic, you name it ... my god, I never imagined the game could be this wonderful.
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I much prefer the marathon tweaking session of control configurations, mouse sensitivity, screen resolution, and deeply geeky moving of horizontal sliders for mad, mad things like “anti-aliasing” and “anisotropic filtering” that provide me with the unnecessary level of control I so crave.
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October 23, 2009 at 10: 41: 59Permalink random anisotropic set theory in n_space
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OpEdNews - Diary: random anisotropic set theory in n_space
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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.”
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This Patent is from the inventor Vijak K. Chandhok, "Method for producing through extrusion an anisotropic magnet with high energy product", U.S.
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If we make our read-head out of a ferromagnetic material instead of an ordinary metal, we find a stronger effect known as anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR).
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Maybe even that inflation was anisotropic, as Lotty and Mark and I contemplated.
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Bayesian analysis of sparse anisotropic universe models and application to the 5-yr WMAP data
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