orthotropic

English

Etymology

ortho- +‎ -tropic

Adjective

orthotropic (not comparable)

(botany) Growing vertically, either upwards or downwards.
(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

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