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(physics) Pertaining to aeolotropy; of a body or substance, having physical properties (e.g., electric conductivity, refractive index) that depend on the direction in which they are measured..
An individual body […] may be isotropic in one quality or class of qualities, but æolotropic in others.
On extending his [Mitscherlich's] inquiry to other aelotropic crystals he observed a similar variation, and was thus led, in 1825, to the discovery that aelotropic crystals, when heated, expand unequally in the direction of dissimilar axes.
Use aeolotropic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Aeolotropic means (physics) Pertaining to aeolotropy; of a body or substance, having physical properties (e.g., electric conductivity, refractive index) that depend on the direction in which they are measured..
Common synonyms include anisotropic, eolotropic.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
An individual body […] may be isotropic in one quality or class of qualities, but æolotropic in others.
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