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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A substance that occurs in three distinct crystalline forms.
- noun One of the crystalline forms in which a trimorphic substance occurs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In crystallography, a substance which exhibits trimorphism, or one of the three forms which such a substance presents: thus the term may be applied to titanium dioxid, or to rutile, one of its three forms of crystallization.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Crystallog.) A substance which crystallizes in three distinct forms, or which has three distinct physical states; also, any one of these distinct forms. See
trimorphism , 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun crystallography A substance which
crystallizes inthree distinct forms , or which has three distinctphysical states . - noun crystallography Any of the three forms of such a substance.
Etymologies
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tri- + -morph
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