Aeolotropic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Aeolotropic is an adjective meaning (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.
Meaning
(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.
Example Sentences
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.
Synonyms for aeolotropic
Depending on context, synonyms include anisotropic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include anisotropic, aelotropic, elotropic, anisotropous, aerolitic, aerologic.
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