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diatropic

diatropic adjective: exhibiting diatropism (any sense).

Adjective

diatropic (comparative more diatropic, superlative most diatropic)

  1. Exhibiting diatropism (any sense).
    • For example, we would not expect to prove that viewers attribute one, and only one, specific meaning to a figure in a diatropic position with open proximal boundaries.1982, John Patrick Spiegel, John Paul Spiegel, Pavel Machotka, The Articulate Body, →ISBN, page 59
    • With potassium the latter compound provides a diatropic delocalized dianion.1989, Douglas Lloyd, The Chemistry of Conjugated Cyclic Compounds

Forms of diatropic

comparativemore diatropic
superlativemost diatropic

Words that rhyme with diatropic

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Questions about diatropic

What does diatropic mean?
Diatropic means exhibiting diatropism (any sense).
What part of speech is diatropic?
Diatropic is an adjective.

Words near diatropic in the dictionary

  1. diatrizoate
  2. diatrizoates
  3. diatrizoic acid
  4. diatron
  5. diatrons
  6. diatropic
  7. diatropically
  8. diatropism
  9. diatropisms
  10. diatryma
  11. diatrymas

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