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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline form of the sphenoid group of the tetragonal system, bound by eight similar isosceles triangles in symmetrical pairs; a tetragonal scalenohedron. See
sphenoid , 1.
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- adjective mineralogy Describing a
wedge -shapedcrystal form of thetetragonal ororthorhombic system. - adjective mineralogy Describing a crystal form bounded by eight
scalene triangles arranged in pairs, constituting atetragonal scalenohedron . - noun geometry A
polyhedron whose fourfaces are identicalisosceles or scalenetriangles .
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