Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Growing toward or away from a stimulus such as gravity, especially along a vertical axis. Used of a plant or plant part.
- adjective Of or relating to a bridge deck consisting of steel plates supported by ribs underneath.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, of or pertaining to or exhibiting orthotropism; growing vertically.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the longer axis vertical; -- said of erect stems.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany
growing vertically , eitherupwards ordownwards - adjective adjective for orthotropics, e.g., "An orthotropic appliance is one used in orthotropic (facial growth guidance) treatment."
Etymologies
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Last, and usually least in effectiveness in my arsenal, are orthotropic substances (in the form of little pills and capsules) commonly known as vitamins or food supplements.
How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser
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Important steps are non-linear, strong orthotropic Finite Element Analysis and crash simulation.
Autoblog Sam Abuelsamid 2010
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New exact solutions for free vibrations of rectangular thin plates. pdf New exact solutions for free vibrations of thin orthotropic rectangular plates. pdf Closed form solutions for free vibrations of rectangular Mindlin plates. pdf I did not find in your article what you mean "novel separation of variables" and also any result which has been obtained "for the first time"!
iMechanica - Comments LG 2010
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Important steps are non-linear, strong orthotropic Finite Element Analysis and crash simulation.
Autoblog Sam Abuelsamid 2010
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For example, is the material isotropic or orthotropic?
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New exact solutions for free vibrations of rectangular thin plates. pdf New exact solutions for free vibrations of thin orthotropic rectangular plates. pdf Closed form solutions for free vibrations of rectangular Mindlin plates. pdf I did not find in your article what you mean "novel separation of variables" and also any result which has been obtained "for the first time"!
iMechanica - Comments LG 2010
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Navier equations for orthotropic plates (analytical solution)
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Navier equations for orthotropic plates (analytical solution)
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Anyone knows the equations for solving orthotropic plates by Navier method.
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Anyone knows the equations for solving orthotropic plates by Navier method.
fbharjo commented on the word orthotropic
stemic???
February 19, 2011