Word Meanings - CLINORHOMBIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.
Related words: (words related to CLINORHOMBIC)
- 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.