isotropic
pronunciation
How to pronounce isotropic in British English:
UK [ˌaɪsə'trɒpɪk]
How to pronounce isotropic in American English:
US [ˌaɪsə'trɒpɪk]
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- Adjective:
- invariant with respect to direction
Word Origin
- isotropic (adj.)
- 1864, from iso- + Greek tropikos "belonging to a turning," from tropos "a turning, way, manner" (see trope).
Example
- 1. The researchers say that the symmetric and isotropic universe should have formed from a spherically symmetric explosion .
- 2. That is , the matter in the universe is homogeneous and isotropic when averaged over very large scales .
- 3. He commented that the results of the research are important because they seem to contradict the nearly universal notion that at a sufficiently large scale , the universe is isotropic , i.e. , does not have a pronounced direction .
- 4. In addition , the studies of the americans actually disprove the hypothesis that the universe is isotropic and symmetric .