Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Exhibiting axial interference figures without the use of polarizing apparatus: said of certain crystals, as epidote. These figures are sometimes called
epoptic figures . Alsoidiocyclophanous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Crystallog.) Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals.
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- adjective crystallography Exhibiting
interference figures without the aid of apolariscope , as certaincrystals do.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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