aerotropy

aero- +‎ -tropy

aerotropy (uncountable)

1. movement (typically of plants) towards the air or oxygen
   • 2003, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics: Regular papers & short notes:

     According to the original four-beam correlation method, it is expected that p dependence at each ${\displaystyle R_{f}}$ represents aerotropy of the correlation function at each ${\displaystyle R_{f}}$.

   • 2004, Indian Statistical Institute Nikil R. Pal; Nikil R. Pal; Nikola Kasabov; Rajani K. Mudi; Srimanta Pal, Neural information processing [electronic resource]: 11th international conference, ICONIP 2004, Calcutta, India, November 22-25, 2004 : proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 490:

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

   • 1891, Archives of Otology:

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

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

     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 .

• aerotropic

• operatory