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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In crystallography, a dome, in the monoclinic system, parallel to that lateral axis which is at right angles to the vertical axis. It is properly a hemidome, since a given form includes but two planes. See
dome 5.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Crystallog.) See the Note under
dome , 4.
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- noun crystallography A
dome that isparallel to theorthodiagonal in amonoclinic crystal .
Etymologies
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ortho- + dome
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