Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Identical in all directions; invariant with respect to direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the same properties in all directions: said of a medium with respect to elasticity, conduction of heat or electricity, or radiation of heat and light.
- Having equal, common, or non-specific developmental capacity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physics) Having the same properties in all directions; specifically, equally elastic in all directions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective physics  Having properties that areidentical in alldirections ; exhibitingisotropy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective invariant with respect to direction
Etymologies
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Examples
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								Poplawski takes advantage of the Euclidean-based coordinate system called isotropic coordinates to describe the gravitational field of a black hole and to model the radial geodesic motion of a massive particle into a black hole. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010 
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								"You get things that are round when those forces are isotropic, that is, felt equally in all directions." NYT > Home Page By NATALIE ANGIER 2010 
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								Poplawski takes advantage of the Euclidean-based coordinate system called isotropic coordinates to describe the gravitational field of a black hole and to model the radial geodesic motion of a massive particle into a black hole. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010 
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								Poplawski takes advantage of the Euclidean-based coordinate system called isotropic coordinates to describe the gravitational field of a black hole and to model the radial geodesic motion of a massive particle into a black hole. 
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								Poplawski takes advantage of the Euclidean-based coordinate system called isotropic coordinates to describe the gravitational field of a black hole and to model the radial geodesic motion of a massive particle into a black hole. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010 
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								Poplawski takes advantage of the Euclidean-based coordinate system called isotropic coordinates to describe the gravitational field of a black hole and to model the radial geodesic motion of a massive particle into a black hole. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010 
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								Poplawski takes advantage of the Euclidean-based coordinate system called isotropic coordinates to describe the gravitational field of a black hole and to model the radial geodesic motion of a massive particle into a black hole. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010 
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								Poplawski takes advantage of the Euclidean-based coordinate system called isotropic coordinates to describe the gravitational field of a black hole and to model the radial geodesic motion of a massive particle into a black hole. 
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								Poplawski takes advantage of the Euclidean-based coordinate system called isotropic coordinates to describe the gravitational field of a black hole and to model the radial geodesic motion of a massive particle into a black hole. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010 
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								Poplawski takes advantage of the Euclidean-based coordinate system called isotropic coordinates to describe the gravitational field of a black hole and to model the radial geodesic motion of a massive particle into a black hole. 
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