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 theaxial planes.
Etymologies
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Latin secare, sectum, to cut.
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