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Isotropy
I-sot′ro-py
,Noun.
(Physics)
Uniformity of physical properties in all directions in a body; absence of all kinds of polarity; specifically, equal elasticity in all directions.
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isotropy
isotropy
English
Noun
isotropy (countable and uncountable, plural isotropies)
- (geometry, physics) The property of being identical, or having the same physical properties, in all directions.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 478,
- down this road, as they watched, came a wagon, then a couple of riders, then a coach and another wagon, in daylight which slowly lost its stark isotropy and was flowed into by clouds and chimney smoke and even episodes of weather
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 478,
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The property of being isotropic