Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A form, belonging to the asymmetric or pediad class of the triclinic system, consisting of a single face only.
Wiktionary
- n. crystallography An asymmetric triclinic crystal form that only has one face.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek πεδίον ("plain, field"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Thence a march of three stages — thirty parasangs — brought him to Caystru-pedion13, a populous city.”
“Cf. above {Kaustrou pedion}, and such modern names as "the Campagna" or "Piano di Sorrento.”
“Thence a march of three stages -- thirty parasangs -- brought him to Caystru-pedion (8), a populous city.”
“Now, the clinical history is a bit sketchy but the most likely presumptive diagnosis is a lithopedion (litho = stone; pedion = child), or”
“_halloi men ra theoi te kai aneres eudon (hapantes) pannux_ as compared with what he tells us at the same time, _e toi hot hes pedion to Troikon hathreseien, aulon suriggon * te homadon*_ the word”
“Geog.” s.v. The name Thebes pedion preserves the site.”
“Cf. above Kaustrou pedion, and such modern names as “the Campagna” or “Piano di”
“Nysion am pedion, tê orousen anax Polydegmôn hippois athanatoisi}.”
“Geog. "s.v. The name {Thebes pedion} preserves the site.”
“[Greek: Alla s 'es Êlysion pedion kai peirata gaiês athanatoi pempsousin, hothi xanthos Rhadamanthys, têper rhêïstê biotê pelei anthrôpoisin; ou niphetos, out' ar cheimôn polys oute pot 'ombros, all' aiei Zephyroio ligy pneiontas aêtas”
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
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