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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In crystallography, a plane parallel to the vertical and macrodiagonal axes of an orthorhombic crystal. See
pinacoid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Crystallog.) One of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the two
planes of anorthorhombic crystal which areparallel to thevertical andlonger lateral (macrodiagonal )axes .
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