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ANISOTROPY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anisotropy mean?
• ANISOTROPY (noun)
The noun ANISOTROPY has 1 sense:
1. the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions
Familiarity information: ANISOTROPY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("anisotropy" is a kind of...):
property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)
Antonym:
isotropy ((physics) the property of being isotropic; having the same value when measured in different directions)
Derivation:
anisotropic (not invariant with respect to direction)
Context examples
The image is derived by calculation of the diffusion anisotropy.
(Diffusion Anisotropy, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)
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