allotropic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˌæləˈtɹɑpɪk/ (General-American)
- /ˌæləˈtɹoʊpɪk/ (General-American)
- /ˌæləˈtɹɒpɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From allo- + -tropic, compare French allotropique.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Describing a form of an element that exhibits allotropy.
Graphite and diamond are allotropic forms of carbon.
A symphony and a poem may be allotropic forms of the same matter: to use a common simile, there is red phosphorus and there is yellow, but both are phosphorus. Likewise there are different forms of art, but there is only one art.
1918, Walter Lionel George, A Novelist on Novels:
Deriveds
Translations (20)
it allotropico (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · es alotrópico (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · fr allotropique (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · sv allotropisk (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · hu allotrop (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · ga allatrópach (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · uk алотропічний (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · ru аллотропи́ческий (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · ca al·lotròpic (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · el αλλοτροπικός (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · cmn 同素异形的 (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · tr allotropik (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · io alotropa (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · pl alotropowy (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · fi allotrooppinen (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · de allotropisch (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · ro alotropic (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · ru аллотро́пный (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · de allotrop (of an element that exhibits allotropy) · pt alotrópico (of an element that exhibits allotropy)