heteronomicadj.
/ˌhɛt(ə)rə(ʊ)ˈnɒmɪk/ Showing a different law or mode of operation.
1. ‘Of unlike or opposite polarity: applied to contact of parts of the human body in experiments on animal magnetism: opposed to isonomic.’
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1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 502 Heteronomic [contact] is hyperaesthesic and increases it [sc. muscular energy].
2. Optics. Affected by spherical aberration so as not to converge to one focus; divergent.
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1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 167 The diminution of the astigmatism of the heteronomic pencils.
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