isotropy

English

Etymology

iso- +‎ -tropy

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  • IPA(key): /aɪˈsɒtɹəpi/

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isotropy (countable and uncountable, plural isotropies)

  1. (geometry, physics) The property of being identical, or having the same physical properties, in all directions.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 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

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