a. [f. ÆOLOTROPY + -IC.] Pertaining to, or characterized by, æolotropy; not isotropic.
1867. Thomson & Tait, Nat. Philos., I. 518. An individual body … may be isotropic in one quality or class of qualities, but æolotropic in others.
1881. Nature, XXIII. 475. To distort the metal tube by a definite twist, thus rendering it æolotropic as regards its electric conductivity.
