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Definition of Bipyramidal
1. a. Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.
Definition of Bipyramidal
1. Adjective. Having the shape of a bipyramid ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bipyramidal
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Bipyramidal
1. Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals. Origin: Pref. Bi- + pyramidal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bipyramidal
Literary usage of Bipyramidal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Crystallography by William James Lewis (1899)
"Trigonal bipyramidal class ; T {hkl, }>qr\. 67. ... 4). No crystal has yet been
discovered showing the symmetry of the trigonal bipyramidal class. ..."
2. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1825)
"Our mineralogical readers are, no doubt, aware of the bipyramidal form in which
sulphate of potash often crystallizes. ..."
3. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1922)
"(Hexagonal bipyramidal. Pyramidal Hemi- hedral.) Apatite Type. 16. ... (Orthorhombic
bipyramidal. ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1908)
"The writer believes that the last-mentioned class, the ditri- gonal bipyramidal,
has a representative in the new gem mineral, ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The "d" forms of the ten dissymmetric isomers for a trigonal bipyramidal intermediate
in a dissociative isomerization of an M(unsym-chel)i species. with the ..."
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