aerotropy
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aerotropy (uncountable)
- movement (typically of plants) towards the air or oxygen
- 2003, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics: Regular papers & short notes:
- According to the original four-beam correlation method, it is expected that p dependence at each represents aerotropy of the correlation function at each .
- 2004, Indian Statistical Institute Nikil R. Pal, Nikil R. Pal, Nikola Kasabov, Rajani K. Mudi, Srimanta Pal, Swapan K. Parui, Indian Statistical Institute Staff, Jadavpur University Staff, Neural information processing [electronic resource]: 11th international conference, ICONIP 2004, Calcutta, India, November 22-25, 2004 : proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 490:
- The first one consists of isotropic Gaussian-basis functions; the other consists of aerotropy Gaussian-basis functions.
- 1891, Archives of Otology:
- The growth of these polypi is almost always towards the current of air, and thus they represent what might be called a certain “aerotropy."
- 1935, International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior, Publications du Bureau central séismologique international: Travaux scientifiques:
- Ewing's suggestion of the existence of longitudinal and transverse waves in earthquake motion had still to meet objections arising from the question of aerotropy of the material in the earth ' s interior .
