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orthotropic

About 0.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

orthotrophic plagiotropic orthotropous apogeotropic plagiotrophic atropous climbing hypogenous autotropic inflected

Often followed by

material plate materials plates and deck elastic lamina symmetry

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