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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as anisotropic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Physics) Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.

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  • adjective dated anisotropic

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