aeolotropic

• eolotropic
• aelotropic, elotropic
• æolotropic (obsolete)

From aeolo- +‎ -tropic.

aeolotropic (not comparable)

1. (physics) 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.
   • 1867, W. Thomson, P. G. Tait, Treatise on Natural Philosophy vol. 1, page 518:

     An individual body […] may be isotropic in one quality or class of qualities, but æolotropic in others.

   • 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edn. vol. 18, page 627:

     On extending his [Mitscherlich's] inquiry to other aelotropic crystals he observed a similar variation, and was thus led, in 1825, to the discovery that aelotropic crystals, when heated, expand unequally in the direction of dissimilar axes.

• anisotropic

• aeolotropy

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Aeolotropic”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.