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Word Meanings - CLINORHOMBIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.

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  • POSSESSIVE
    Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
  • 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
  • POSSESSIONER
    1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
  • INCLINING
    See 3
  • PRISMATOIDAL
    Having a prismlike form. Ure.
  • PRISMOIDAL
    Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.
  • POSSESSIONARY
    Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
  • INCLINED
    Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively
  • POSSESSOR
    One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor. "Possessors of eternal glory." Law. As if he had been possessor of the whole world.
  • INCLINATORY
    Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
  • MONOCLINIC
    Having one oblique intersection; -- said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See Crystallization.
  • PRISMOID
    A body that approaches to the form of a prism.
  • INCLINATION
    The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23º 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or
  • INCLINNOMETER
    An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.
  • POSSESSION
    The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. Note: Possession may be either actual or constructive; actual, when a party has the immediate occupancy;
  • POSSESSIVELY
    In a possessive manner.
  • POSSESSORY
    Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord. Possessory action or suit , an action to regain or obtain possession of something. See under Petitory.
  • OBLIQUELY
    In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly. "Truth obliquely leveled." Bp. Fell. Declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray. Pope His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from others. Addison.
  • INCLINABLENESS
    The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination.
  • POSSESS
    possess, from an inseparable prep. + sedere to sit. 1. To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold. Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. Jer. xxxii. 15. Yet beauty,
  • DIPRISMATIC
    Doubly prismatic.
  • DISPOSSESS
    To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess
  • REPOSSESS
    To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of , to acquire again .
  • UNPOSSESS
    To be without, or to resign, possession of.
  • DISPOSSESSOR
    One who dispossesses. Cowley.
  • FOREPOSSESSED
    1. Holding or held formerly in possession. 2. Preoccupied; prepossessed; preëngaged. Not extremely forepossessed with prejudice. Bp. Sanderson.
  • DISPOSSESSION
    The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. (more info) 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall.
  • ORTHORHOMBIC
    Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization.
  • SELF-POSSESSION
    The possession of one's powers; calmness; self-command; presence of mind; composure.
  • SELF-POSSESSED
    Composed or tranquill in mind, manner, etc.; undisturbed.
  • MACROPRISM
    A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids.

 

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