orthotropic

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English

Etymology

From ortho- +‎ -tropic.

Adjective

orthotropic (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Growing vertically, either upwards or downwards.
  2. (engineering) Having material properties that differ along three mutually orthogonal twofold axes of rotational symmetry.
    Hypernym: anisotropic

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