anisotropy
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- noun
- /ˌænɪˈsɒtrəpi/
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anisotropía
- Engineers must account for anisotropy when designing structures, as materials can behave differently depending on their orientation.
- elastic anisotropy
- anisotropy in material
And that measure is called fractional anisotropy or FA.
- And that measure is called fractional anisotropy or FA.
- However, we wanted to test this by looking at the anisotropy in similarly distant astronomical sources.
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We live in an exciting universe precisely because of the minuscule inhomogeneities and anisotropies that arose during its earliest moments.
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Even more important than anisotropy may be the heterogeneity of properties within a fracture network.
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And that measure is called fractional anisotropy or FA.
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However, we wanted to test this by looking at the anisotropy in similarly distant astronomical sources.
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Of course, the velocities of surface waves reflect the elastic anisotropy of the solid medium.
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Anisotropic characteristics have been demonstrated in animal skin (20), though the degree of anisotropy depends on the location.
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Fractures often have preferred orientations that impart an overall anisotropy, or enhanced direction of flow.
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Figure 5 shows how scanning tunneling microscopy can readily demonstrate the existence of diffusional anisotropy.
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The remarkable anisotropies in phonon propagation are an integral component of condensed matter physics at low temperatures.
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Note that magneto-optic recording films possess vertical magnetic anisotropy; i.e., the magnetic domains are always oriented vertically.
Academic text (1996)
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Etymology
Anisotropy comes from Greek parts an- 'not', iso- 'equal' and -tropos 'direction' or 'turn'. So anisotropy means something is 'not equal' in different directions, for example a material that behaves one way along one axis and another way along a different axis.