ANISOTROPIC - Not isotropic; i.e. having different properties in different directions. In the case of minerals, optical anisotropy is particularly marked and useful.
Anisotropic Superfluid
A system of fermions in which Cooper pairs form in a state of finite relative orbital motion and possibly finite total spin.
Anisotropy ...
Linearly anisotropic scattering. [H76]
Roche Limit
The minimum distance at which a satellite under the influence of its own gravitation and that of a central mass about which it is describing a circular Keplerian orbit can be in equilibrium.
Materials with anisotropic structures, such as crystals and composites, will generally have different expansion coefficients in different orientations.
anisotropic (NASA SP-7, 1965) Exhibiting different properties when tested along axes in different directions.
Richstone and Tremaine 1985 (ApJ 296, 370), following work by people such as Duncan, showed that a sufficiently anisotropic velocity distribution of the stars could mimic this result, ...
For 3He-3He, p-6Li and p-11B the Bremsstrahlung losses appear to make a fusion reactor using these fuels with a quasineutral, anisotropic plasma impossible.
Their properties are anisotropic--i.e., dependent on the direction of current flow and of magnetic field with respect to the planes and chains of atoms.
Physics and Astronomy: Anisotropy (or Anisotropic), Baryonic dark matter, Big bang nucleosynthesis, Blackbody, Black dwarf, Cold dark matter, Dark energy, Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit, History of astronomy, Hubble's law, ...
The Yarkovsky effect is a force felt by a body caused by the anisotropic emission of thermal photons, which carry momentum.
The Yarkovsky effect is a Force acting on a rotating body in space caused by the anisotropic emission of heat photons, which carry momentum.
A complete sky survey showed that the celestial distribution of gamma-rays is highly anisotropic, being concentrated along the galactic equator. In addition, an extended region around the galactic center showed a higher measured intensity.
This is because the density of matter and radiation wasn't the same throughout the universe -- it was anisotropic.
Light may be considered as energy being transported in a train of wavefronts. The direction of propagation (except for anisotropic media) is in a direction perpendicular to the wavefront. Rays can be conceived as trajectories of photons.
along axes in different directions - a physical measurement made in one direction differs from the measurement made in another direction. For example, the cosmic microwave background radiation (the radiant heat left over from the ) is anisotropic.
See also: Limiting magnitude, Video observations Poynting-Robertson effect A dissipative force due to the anisotropic loss of momentum by a particle through re-radiation of solar energy.
 See also: Isotropic, Time, Energy, Light, Solar
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