Meaning of aeolotropic | Babel Free
Definitions
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.
not-comparable
Examples
“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.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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