Isotropic (Adjective)
Meaning
Invariant with respect to direction.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- Light travels through air in an isotropic manner, unaffected by direction.
- The engineer designed the new coating to be isotropic, ensuring its properties remained the same regardless of the direction of stress.
- Physical properties like density are typically isotropic in crystals that have a cubic structure.
- In isotropic materials, the speed of sound remains constant regardless of the direction of propagation.
- The isotropic nature of space in this theoretical model allows for many important calculations to be simplified.