Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not isotropic.
- adjective Physics Having properties that differ based on the direction of measurement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having predetermined axes: opposed to isotropic.
- Not having the same properties in all directions; not isotropic; æolotropic. All crystals except those of the isometric system are anisotropic with respect to light.
- In botany, a term applied by Sachs to organs which respond differently or unequally to external influences.
- Equivalent forms are anisotropal, anisotrope, and anisotropous.
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- adjective physics Having
properties thatdiffer according to thedirection ofmeasurement ; exhibitinganisotropy .
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- adjective not invariant with respect to direction
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Examples
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It varies enormously in anisotropic temperature, electron temperature and ion differences.
SDO On Station Transmitting First Data as Solar Science Payloads Open Today | Universe Today 2010
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High water effects, full Bloom and Depth of Field, 50,000 particles, all settings at High or Very high detail, 4x anisotropic, you name it ... my god, I never imagined the game could be this wonderful.
Cyborgasm spyderqueen 2008
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I much prefer the marathon tweaking session of control configurations, mouse sensitivity, screen resolution, and deeply geeky moving of horizontal sliders for mad, mad things like “anti-aliasing” and “anisotropic filtering” that provide me with the unnecessary level of control I so crave.
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October 23, 2009 at 10: 41: 59Permalink random anisotropic set theory in n_space
OpEdNews - Diary: random anisotropic set theory in n_space 2009
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OpEdNews - Diary: random anisotropic set theory in n_space
OpEdNews - Diary: random anisotropic set theory in n_space 2009
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The universe around 500my after the big bang has anisotropic and inhomogeneous distributions which are amplified due to some Virial process where accumulated matter has a kinetic energy equal to half the potential and due to “friction.”
Early Galaxy Pinpoints Reionization Era | Universe Today 2009
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This Patent is from the inventor Vijak K. Chandhok, "Method for producing through extrusion an anisotropic magnet with high energy product", U.S.
It's Time to Make Free Energy our Next Grass Roots Victory 2009
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If we make our read-head out of a ferromagnetic material instead of an ordinary metal, we find a stronger effect known as anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR).
And the Physics Nobel Prize goes to… « Skulls in the Stars 2007
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Maybe even that inflation was anisotropic, as Lotty and Mark and I contemplated.
A New CMB Anomaly? Sean 2008
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Bayesian analysis of sparse anisotropic universe models and application to the 5-yr WMAP data
A New CMB Anomaly? Sean 2008
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