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Hemihedral

 

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Hemihedral

 

Meaning of term hemihedral

Hemihedral (a.) Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron.

 

Source: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~ralph/OPTED/v003/wb1913_h.html

Author : OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

 

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