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Definition of Biaxial
1. Adjective. Having two axes. "Biaxial crystals"
Definition of Biaxial
1. Adjective. Having two axes ¹
2. Adjective. Having a value in two perpendicular directions. [In solid mechanics it generally means that normal stresses exist in two of the possible three directions. Note that they do not have to be equal in sign or magnitude.] ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Biaxial
1. having two axes [adj]
Medical Definition of Biaxial
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Biaxial
Literary usage of Biaxial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"This will also occur in uniaxial and biaxial crystals if a symmetry plane of the
... Uniaxial crystals may be separated from biaxial crystals by tilting the ..."
2. Elementary Chemical Microscopy by Emile Monnin Chamot (1921)
"Crystals belonging to the orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic systems (biaxial
crystals) have three indices. In uniaxial crystals one value corresponds ..."
3. The Optical Properties of Crystals: With a General Introduction to Their by Paul Groth (1910)
"INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA OF biaxial CRYSTALS IN PARALLEL POLARIZED LIGHT Light rays
of a definite color falling perpendicularly on a plate cut in ..."
4. Petrographic Methods: The Authorized English Translation of Part I by Ernst Weinschenk, Robert Watson Clark (1912)
"biaxial Crystals.—If a plate of a biaxial crystal with not too small an optic
angle is cut perpendicular to an optic axis and Observed in convergent polar- ..."
5. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Sir Henry A Miers, Henry A[lexander] Miers (1902)
"The Indicatrix of a (positive) biaxial Crystal. similarly obtained from beams
... biaxial Crystals.—Any plane section of an ellipsoid is an ellipse, ..."
6. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"In order to comprehend the optical behavior of biaxial crystals, it is necessary
to consider more closely certain relationships between the velocities of ..."
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