Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
uniaxial .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Uniaxial.
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- adjective Archaic form of
uniaxial .
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Examples
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Besides the _regular_ crystals which produce double refraction in no direction, and the _uniaxal_ crystals which produce it in all directions but one, Brewster discovered that in a large class of crystals there are _two_ directions in which double refraction does not take place.
Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856
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Crystals, rings surrounding the axes of, uniaxal and biaxal, 145
Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856
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Mitscherlich on the chemical origin of iron glance in volcanic masses, 234; chemical combinations, a means of throwing a clear light on geognosy, 256; on gypsum, as a uniaxal crystal, 259; experiments on the simultaneously opposite actions of heat on crystalline bodies, 259; formation of crystals of mica, 260; on artificial mineral products, 268, 271.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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[footnote] * On gypsum as a uniaxal crystal, and on the sulphate of magnesia, and the oxyds of zinc and nickel, see Mitscherlich, in Poggend.,
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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