Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

aeolotropic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ae-olotrop-ic
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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.

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

From aeolo- + -tropic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: aeolo
Suffix: tropic

Inflected Forms

eolotropic (alternative) aelotropic (alternative) elotropic (alternative) æolotropic (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

aeolotropy

Synonyms

anisotropic eolotropic

Questions

What does aeolotropic mean?: 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.
Where does aeolotropic come from?: From aeolo- + -tropic.

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