0 Something that is anisotropic changes in size or in its physical properties according to the direction in which it is measured:
Graphite is an anisotropic material. This means that its properties depend on direction.
Carbon fibre is anisotropic, meaning it possesses directional stiffness.
anisotropic conductivity
Electron scattering is anisotropic and the scattering amplitudes peak strongly in the forward direction.
Water diffusion in white matter is highly anisotropic i.e. not equal in all directions.
Shock waves in plasmas with strongly anisotropic viscosity and thermal conductivity are considered.
In 3D computer graphics, anisotropic filtering is a method of enhancing the image quality of textures.
As the industrial process involves large shear stresses, fibres will slip over one another, and we assume the material to be an anisotropic viscous continuum.
There is another consequence of the greater sensitivity of anisotropic compliant walls to damping.
We need to distinguish several different properties : permanent (static) bendedness, isotropic (dynamic) bendability, and anisotropic bendability (which in certain respects closely resembles static bendedness).
In realizing this, we learn that the environment of bodies on the earth's surface is anisotropic and that this is detectable independently of projectiles' motion.
