diatropic

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒpɪk

Adjective

diatropic (comparative more diatropic, superlative most diatropic)

1. Exhibiting diatropism (any sense).
   • 1982, John Patrick Spiegel, John Paul Spiegel, Pavel Machotka, The Articulate Body, →ISBN, page 59:

     For example, we would not expect to prove that viewers attribute one, and only one, specific meaning to a figure in a diatropic position with open proximal boundaries.

   • 1989, Douglas Lloyd, The Chemistry of Conjugated Cyclic Compounds:

     With potassium the latter compound provides a diatropic delocalized dianion.

   • 2014, Mohammad Pessarakli, Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology, →ISBN, page 162:

     Irradiation of the stolon apical zone with FR did not affect its diatropic growth pattern.

Anagrams

• apidictor, podiatric