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æolotropic

æolotropic is the obsolete spelling of aeolotropic.

Meaning of aeolotropic

Adjective

aeolotropic (not comparable)

  1. 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.
    • An individual body […] may be isotropic in one quality or class of qualities, but æolotropic in others.1867, W. Thomson, P. G. Tait, Treatise on Natural Philosophy vol. 1, page 518
    Synonyms:
    anisotropic

Questions about æolotropic

What is æolotropic the obsolete spelling of?
Æolotropic is the obsolete spelling of aeolotropic.

Words near æolotropic in the dictionary

  1. æolipyle
  2. æolipyles
  3. Æolis
  4. Æolist
  5. Æolists
  6. æolotropic
  7. æolotropy
  8. Æolus
  9. æon
  10. æonial
  11. æonian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: æolotropic (page history and authors); aeolotropic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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