Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form, belonging to the asymmetric or pediad class of the triclinic system, consisting of a single face only.
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- noun crystallography An
asymmetric triclinic crystal form that only has oneface .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thence a march of three stages — thirty parasangs — brought him to Caystru-pedion13, a populous city.
Anabasis 2007
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Cf. above {Kaustrou pedion}, and such modern names as "the Campagna" or "Piano di Sorrento."
Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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Thence a march of three stages -- thirty parasangs -- brought him to Caystru-pedion (8), a populous city.
Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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Now, the clinical history is a bit sketchy but the most likely presumptive diagnosis is a lithopedion (litho = stone; pedion = child), or
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_halloi men ra theoi te kai aneres eudon (hapantes) pannux_ as compared with what he tells us at the same time, _e toi hot hes pedion to Troikon hathreseien, aulon suriggon * te homadon*_ the word
Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1911
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Geog.” s.v. The name Thebes pedion preserves the site.
Anabasis 2007
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Cf. above Kaustrou pedion, and such modern names as “the Campagna” or “Piano di
Anabasis 2007
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Nysion am pedion, tê orousen anax Polydegmôn hippois athanatoisi}.
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Geog. "s.v. The name {Thebes pedion} preserves the site.
Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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[Greek: Alla s 'es Êlysion pedion kai peirata gaiês athanatoi pempsousin, hothi xanthos Rhadamanthys, têper rhêïstê biotê pelei anthrôpoisin; ou niphetos, out' ar cheimôn polys oute pot 'ombros, all' aiei Zephyroio ligy pneiontas aêtas
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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