An"i*so*trope` (#), An`i*so*trop"ic (#), a. [Gr. unequal + a turning, to turn.] Physics

Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.

 

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