orthotropic

English

Etymology

ortho- +‎ -tropic

Adjective

orthotropic (not comparable)

1. (botany) Growing vertically, either upwards or downwards.
2. (engineering) Having material properties that differ along three mutually orthogonal twofold axes of rotational symmetry.

   Hypernym: anisotropic

Related terms

• orthotropous

Translations

Translations

• French: orthotropique
• Italian: ortotropo
• Portuguese: ortotrópico