Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A portion of space cut off from the rest by three planes, but extending to infinity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One of the portions of space bounded by the three coordinate planes. Specif. (Crystallog.), one of the parts of a crystal into which it is divided by the axial planes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One of the portions of space bounded by the three coordinate planes.
  • noun crystallography One of the parts of a crystal into which it is divided by the axial planes.

Etymologies

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Latin secare, sectum, to cut.

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