polytropic adjective5 •Able to take various courses of action; resourceful, versatile, adaptable.Just as quickly, however, she turned her polytropic talents to other fields, penning an incredible 7,000 encyclopedia articles during the mid-1950s. — 1986 •Pertaining to the constraint that variance in pressure or volume leaves heat constant; or (more generally) the constraint that any change in the thermodynamic properties leave a specific property constant. •Of bees or other insects: visiting a wide circle of flowers, visiting the flowers of many different species. •Focusing one’s attention on multiple sets of things at one time.[I]t is the difference between having few interests highly aroused, the monotropic tendency, and having many interests less highly aroused, the polytropic tendency. — 2005 •(no longer used, rare) Having many values.
