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isotropy

noun/aɪˈsɒ.tɹə.pi/

What It Means

The property of being identical, or having the same physical properties, in all directions.

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Isotropy in Context

“down this road, as they watched, came a wagon, then a couple of riders, then a coach and another wagon, in daylight which slowly lost its stark isotropy and was flowed into by clouds and chimney smoke and even episodes of weather”

— 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 478

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From iso- + -tropy.

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