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AEolotropic
aeolotropic
,Æˊo-lo-trop′ic
Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK] changeful + [GREEK] a turning, [GREEK] to turn.]
(Physics)
Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; having properties with different values along different axes; not isotropic. In specialized contexts, synonymous with
anisotropic
. [Also spelled
eolotropic
.] Sir W. Thomson.
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aeolotropic
aeolotropic
See also: æolotropic
English
Alternative forms
- eolotropic
- aelotropic, elotropic
- æolotropic (obsolete)
Adjective
aeolotropic (not comparable)
- (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.
- 1867, W. Thomson & P. G. Tait, Treatise on Natural Philosophy vol. 1, pages 518:
- An individual body […] may be isotropic in one quality or class of qualities, but æolotropic in others.
- 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edn. vol. 18, pages 627:
- 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.
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References
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editor (1884–1928) A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697; and The Oxford English Dictionary; being a Corrected Re-issue with an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (the First Supplement), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933, OCLC 2748467.