Isotropy

Pronunciation

• IPA: /aɪˈsÉ’tɹəpi/

Origin

- + tropy + -

Full definition of isotropy

Noun

1. (geometry, physics) The property of being identical, or having the same physical properties, in all directions.
• 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 478,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

Antonyms

• anisotropy

Related terms

• isotropic

Anagrams

• porosity