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Definition of Bisectrix
1. n. The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.
Definition of Bisectrix
1. Noun. The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bisectrix
1. [n -TRICES]
Medical Definition of Bisectrix
1. The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bisectrix
Literary usage of Bisectrix
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)
"Sections Cut at Right Angles to the Obtuse bisectrix.2—When the axial angle is
nearly 90°, the interference figure produced in a section cut at right angles ..."
2. Elements of Optical Mineralogy: An Introduction to Microscopic Petrography by Newton Horace Winchell, Alexander Newton Winchell (1908)
"Obtuse bisectrix 3. Acute bisectrix 4. Optic axis These sections exhibit, for
any given mineral the greatest possible range of interference colors. ..."
3. Rock-forming Minerals by Frank Rutley (1888)
"sections or cleavage plates, lying askew to a bisectrix, are examined in convergent
... For this purpose plates cut at right angles to the acute bisectrix ..."
4. The Methods of Petrographic-microscopic Research, Their Relative Accuracy by Frederic Eugene Wright (1911)
"SECTION NEARLY NORMAL TO THE OBTUSE bisectrix. For a section nearly normal to
the obtuse bisectrix of a mineral both optic axes lie again outside the field ..."
5. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1922)
"If the word bisectrix is used alone without special qualification it is always
to be understood as referring to the acute bisectrix. ..."
6. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"Between the optic axis and the obtuse bisectrix the reverse condition obtains,
slow ray vibrates parallel to slow ray, the effect is a thickening, ..."
7. Microscopical Physiography of the Rock-making Minerals: An Aid to the by Harry Rosenbusch (1889)
"12 presents the scheme of an optically positive crystal with inclined dispersion,
in which cp (the positive bisectrix for red rays) has a greater ..."
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