(Anisotropy is the opposite of isotropy, which is the condition of having the same value when measured from different directions.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Space: A three-dimensional air hockey game] Reference

Indeed, it's hard to assess the true force of arguments from isotropy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frame Problem] Reference

Its formal simplicity is characterized by the properties of homogeneity and isotropy (and the existence of similar entities).    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Of My Later Years]

Three problems of this sort will be discussed: the distance function problem, the dimension problem and the isotropy problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finitism in Geometry] Reference

They just decided it would be cool to explore, and will shed no tears if inflation turns out to be a nice creamy vanilla of isotropy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dude! Where’s my baryons?] Reference

Accordingly, the idealized scheme as previously described will not work without modification to offset the Earth's deviation from isotropy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

So the isotropy of analogical reasoning is potentially very troublesome, and especially so in the context of a highly modular theory of mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frame Problem] Reference

Personally, I think that the looming flaw in all of these ideas is that they take the homogeneity and isotropy of our universe too seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Did the Universe Start?] Reference

Soon, by the dialectic of the Book, Pointsman will be alone, in a black field lapsing to isotropy, to the zero, waiting to be last to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

Also it is very rarely recalled that the original Kolmogorov work postulates some rather strong hypothesis like isotropy , homogeneity and self similarity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit] Reference

Fogel (2004) agrees that Winsberg and Fine's weakened formalization of separability is correct, but argues that, when supplemented by a certain ˜isotropy™ condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics] Reference

One of the important features of the universe around us is that, on sufficiently large scales, it looks pretty much the same in every direction — “isotropy,” in cosmology lingo.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New CMB Anomaly?] Reference

It is almost uniform when observed in different directions; the small deviations from isotropy are now being investigated and will tell us more about the earliest history of our universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000] Reference

Put in slightly different terms: isotropic and Quinean processes are global rather than local, and since globality rules out encapsulation, isotropy and Quineanness rule out encapsulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modularity of Mind] Reference

Nevertheless, there is a subtle way for the universe to break isotropy and have a preferred direction: if the tiny observed perturbations somehow have a different character in one direction than in others.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New CMB Anomaly?] Reference

Both isotropy and Quineanness are features that preclude encapsulation, since their possession by a system would require potentially unlimited access to the contents of central memory, and hence cognitive penetrability to the max.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modularity of Mind] Reference

By contrast, as Fodor says, analogical reasoning is “isotropy in the purest form: a process which depends precisely upon the transfer of information among cognitive domains previously assumed to be irrelevant” (Fodor 1983, p. 105).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frame Problem] Reference

Yet it may turn out that the brain incorporates a solution to the problem of isotropy in the form of an attention mechanism that limits access to a global workspace, which in turn broadcasts information to numerous otherwise independent brain processes (Baars 1988).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frame Problem] Reference

Two scientists, Borge Nodland of the University of Rochester and John Ralston of the University of Kansas, were claiming that they had detected a violation of a fundamental principle of modern cosmology — isotropy, the idea that space looks the same in every direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Screwy Universe] Reference

In 1948 Blackett followed up speculations about the isotropy of cosmic rays and began speculating on the origin of the interstellar magnetic fields, and in so doing revived interest in some 30-year old speculations of Schuster and H.A. Wilson, and others, on the origin of the magnetic field of the earth and sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patrick M.S. Blackett - Biography] Reference

The fluidization response does not depend upon stretch isotropy.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The field probes also profit from excellent isotropy, typically 0.3 dB at 50 MHz with values to 0.5 dB.    From Wordnik.com.  [All DN headlines] Reference

Search for departure from isotropy - point sources • Mass Composition: nuclei, photons, neutrinos, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The field probes are also said to profit from good isotropy, typically 0. 3dB at 50MHz with values to 0. 5dB.    From Wordnik.com.  [Electronicstalk - electronics industry news] Reference

It's a hard mathematical fact (i.e. a proven theorem), stemming from spatial isotropy and basic energy conservation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

This probably improves the isotropy of the radiation pattern, but only when the phone is suspended magically in air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Reference

Two trends in sculpture that emerged in the first decade of the twenty-first century -- isotropy and radiality -- figure prominently in.    From Wordnik.com.  [artforum.com] Reference

Accepting this dramatic assessment would mean giving up the vital assumption of statistical isotropy - that the universe should, on large scales, appear the same in every direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Space] Reference

There is another important motivation for studying deviations from pure statistical isotropy of cosmological perturbations: a number of analyses have found evidence that such deviations might exist in the real world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cosmic Variance] Reference

2. The isotropy of the cosmic microwave background.    From Wordnik.com.  [Launchpad Day 5: Cosmology (Mike Brotherton)] Reference

It has also been suggested that isotropy is damaging to the so-called theory theory of folk psychology (Heal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frame Problem] Reference

As shown by work on the logical frame problem ” once thought by many to be an incurable symptom of isotropy ” armchair speculation about cognition doesn't always reflect the real issues facing an engineer trying to build it into a machine or a neuroscientist investigating its basis in the biological brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frame Problem] Reference

The isotropy of the propagation of light.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

(2001) argues that isotropy is a problem for both accounts of folk psychology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frame Problem] Reference

“isotropy”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frame Problem] Reference