Word Meanings - MACRODIAGONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism. See Crystallization.

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• 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
• 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
• PRISMATOIDAL
  Having a prismlike form. Ure.
• PRISMOIDAL
  Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.
• PRISMOID
  A body that approaches to the form of a prism.
• PRISM GLASS
  Glass with one side smooth and the other side formed into sharp-edged ridges so as to reflect the light that passes through, used at windows to throw the light into the interior.
• PRISMATIC; PRISMATICAL
  See PRISM (more info) 1. Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic form or cleavage. 2. Separated or distributed by a prism; formed by a prism; as, prismatic colors.
• PRISMATICALLY
  In the form on manner of a prism; by means of a prism.
• RHOMBIC
  See ORTHORHOMBIC (more info) 1. Shaped like a rhomb.
• LONGER
  One who longs for anything.
• PRISMY
  Pertaining to a prism.
• DIPRISMATIC
  Doubly prismatic.
• ORTHORHOMBIC
  Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization.
• MACROPRISM
  A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids.
• PROLONGER
  One who, or that which, causes an extension in time or space.
• CLINORHOMBIC
  Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.
• RECRYSTALLIZATION
  The process or recrystallizing.
• BIPRISM
  A prism whose refracting angle is very nearly 180 degrees. 2. A combination of two short rectangular glass prisms cemented together at their diagonal faces so as to form a cube; -- called also optical cube. It is used in one form of photometer.