n. The degree to which this property is exhibited.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The quality of being anisotropic.
n. In embryology, the condition of having the axes predetermined: applied to certain differentiated animal ova: opposed to isotropy.
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n. the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions
Word Usage
"Quantum uncertainty fluctuations in the field coupled with local regions of curvature, where this reheating had some measure of inhomogeneity, or as observed from a central location an anisotropy, that is frozen out in what we observe now."