Word Meanings - BRACHYDIAGONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism. Brachydiagonal axis, the shorter lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal.

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• CRYSTALLOID
  Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.
• CRYSTALLIZATION
  The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
• CRYSTAL
  The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.
• CRYSTALLIZE
  To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHER
  One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.
• PRISM
  A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms. Note: Prisms of different forms are often named from the figure of their bases; as, a triangular prism, a quadrangular
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• CRYSTALLOMETRY
  The art of measuring crystals.
• CRYSTALLIZABLE
  Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.
• CRYSTALLURGY
  Crystallizaton.
• DIAGONAL
  Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides. Diagonal bond , herringbone work. See Herringbone, a. -- Diagonal built , built by forming
• PRISMATOIDAL
  Having a prismlike form. Ure.
• CRYSTALLITE
  A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form
• ORTHORHOMBIC
  Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization.
• PRISMOIDAL
  Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.
• CRYSTALLINE
  1. Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak. 2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell. 3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline,
• BRACHYDIAGONAL
  Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism. Brachydiagonal axis, the shorter lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
  1. The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation. 2. A discourse or treatise on crystallization.
• DIPRISMATIC
  Doubly prismatic.
• HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• PHANEROCRYSTALLINE
  Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.
• ORTHODIAGONAL
  The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.