aerotropy

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noun

movement (typically of plants) towards the air or oxygen

Scrabble 14

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nounaerotropy (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemovement (typically of plants) towards the air or oxygen

    The first one consists of isotropic Gaussian-basis functions; the other consists of aerotropy Gaussian-basis functions.

    2004, Indian Statistical Institute Nikil R. Pal, Nikil R. Pal, Nikola Kasabov, Rajani K. Mudi, Srimanta Pal, Swapan K. Parui, Indian Statistical Institute Staff, Jadavpur University Staff, Neural information processing [electronic resource]: 11th international conference, ICONIP 2004, Calcutta, India, November 22-25, 2004 : proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 490
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    According to the original four-beam correlation method, it is expected that p dependence at each R#95;f represents aerotropy of the correlation function at each R#95;f.

    2003, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics: Regular papers & short notes

    The growth of these polypi is almost always towards the current of air, and thus they represent what might be called a certain “aerotropy."

    1891, Archives of Otology

    Ewing's suggestion of the existence of longitudinal and transverse waves in earthquake motion had still to meet objections arising from the question of aerotropy of the material in the earth ' s interior .

    1935, International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior, Publications du Bureau central séismologique international: Travaux scientifiques

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