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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In crystallography, either of the two planes of a monoclinic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and inclined lateral axes. See
pinacoid . Alsoklinopinacoid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Crystallog.) The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.
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- noun crystallography The
plane inmonoclinic crystals that isparallel to thevertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal)axes .
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clino- + pinacoid
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