Usually means: Different structural forms of element.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. allotropy: Merriam-Webster
  2. allotropy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. allotropy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. allotropy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. allotropy: Vocabulary.com
  6. allotropy: Wordnik
  7. allotropy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. allotropy: Wiktionary
  9. allotropy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. allotropy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. allotropy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. allotropy: Dictionary.com
  13. Allotropy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Allotropy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. allotropy: Rhymezone
  16. Allotropy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. allotropy: FreeDictionary.org
  18. allotropy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. allotropy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. allotropy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. allotropy: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allotropy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. allotropy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. allotropy: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Allotropy: Extragalactic Astronomy

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (allotropy)

noun:  (chemistry) A property, exhibited by some elements, of existing in multiple forms with different atomic structures.

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