Aeolotropic :: Aeolotropic (a.) Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic.

Aeolotropy :: Aeolotropy (n.) Difference of quality or property in different directions.

Allotropic :: Allotropic (a.) Alt. of Allotropica.

Allotropical :: Allotropical (a.) Of or pertaining to allotropism.

Allotropicity :: Allotropicity (n.) Allotropic property or nature.

Allotropism :: Allotropism (n.) Alt. of Allotrop.

Allotropize :: Allotropize (v. t.) To change in physical properties but not in substance.

Allotropy :: Allotropy (n.) The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.

Ametropia :: Ametropia (n.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

Amphitropal :: Amphitropal (a.) Alt. of Amphitropou.

Amphitropous :: Amphitropous (a.) Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous..

Anastrophe :: Anastrophe (n.) An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed..

Anatropal :: Anatropal (a.) Alt. of Anatropou.

Anatropous :: Anatropous (a.) Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous..

Anisotrope :: Anisotrope (a.) Alt. of Anisotropi.

Anisotropic :: Anisotropic (a.) Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic..

Anisotropous :: Anisotropous (a.) Anisotropic.

Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song..

Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master..

Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.

Antistrophic :: Antistrophic (a.) Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

Antistrophon :: Antistrophon (n.) An argument retorted on an opponent.

Antitropal :: Antitropal (a.) Alt. of Antitropou.

Antitropous :: Antitropous (a.) At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle..

Apheliotropic :: Apheliotropic (a.) Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc..

Apheliotropism :: Apheliotropism (n.) The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

Apogeotropic :: Apogeotropic (a.) Bending away from the ground; -- said of leaves, etc..

Apogeotropism :: Apogeotropism (n.) The apogeotropic tendency of some leaves, and other parts..

Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..

Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called..

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