Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In crystallography, that diagonal or lateral axis in monoclinic crystals which forms an oblique angle with the vertical axis. Also called
clino-axis . - Pertaining to or in the direction of the clinodiagonal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Crystallog.) That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See
crystallization .
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- noun crystallography That
diagonal orlateral axis in amonoclinic crystal which makes anoblique angle with thevertical axis. - adjective Pertaining to, or in the direction of, such a diagonal.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek to incline + English diagonal.
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