Word Meanings - CLINODIAGONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle witch the vertical axis. See Crystallization. -- a.

Related words: (words related to CLINODIAGONAL)

• 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
• WITCH-ELM
  See WYCH-ELM
• CRYSTALLIZE
  To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.
• WITCH
  A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera. (more info) the same word as AS. witiga, witga, a soothsayer ; cf. Fries. wikke, a witch, LG. wikken to predict, Icel. vitki a wizard, 1. One who practices
• WITCHING
  That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching. "The very witching time of night." Shak. -- Witch"ing*ly, adv.
• 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.
• OBLIQUENESS
  Quality or state of being oblique.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• 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.
• CRYSTALLOMETRY
  The art of measuring crystals.
• VERTICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one. Charity . . . is the vertical top of all religion. Jer. Taylor. 2. Perpendicular to the plane
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CRYSTALLIZABLE
  Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.
• WITCHCRAFT
  1. The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits. 2. Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak.
• OBLIQUE
  An oblique line.
• CRYSTALLURGY
  Crystallizaton.
• 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
• VERTICALNESS
  Quality or state of being vertical.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CRYSTALLOID
  Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.
• UNWITCH
  To free from a witch or witches; to fee from witchcraft. B. Jonson.
• HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
• BRANGLE
  A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift. (more info) brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused
• UNTANGLE
  To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.
• QUINQUEANGLED
  Having five angles; quinquangular.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• TRIANGLE
  A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. Note: A triangle is either plane, spherical, or curvilinear, according as its sides are straight lines, or arcs of great circles of a sphere, or any curved lines whatever. A
• WIDE-ANGLE
  Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; -- applied to certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinary purposes have an angle of 50º or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100º and are useful for photographing
• ANGLE
  A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses." Chaucer. 5. Etym: (more info) 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles
• FANGLE
  Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.