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Definition of Rhombohedral
1. Adjective. Having threefold symmetry.
Category relationships: Crystallography
Similar to: Symmetric, Symmetrical
Derivative terms: Rhombohedron
Definition of Rhombohedral
1. a. Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron.
Definition of Rhombohedral
1. Adjective. (crystallography) Having three equal axes and oblique angles. ¹
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Definition of Rhombohedral
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhombohedral
Literary usage of Rhombohedral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1892)
"MR JW CLARK, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. The following Communications were made to
the Society: (1) On Solution and Crystallization. III. rhombohedral and ..."
2. Treatise on Mineralogy: Or, The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom by Friedrich Mohs (1825)
"The di-pyramids form part of the di- rhombohedral forms, and combinations, which
contain them, are likewise considered as di-rhombohedral. ..."
3. Mathematical Crystallography and the Theory of Groups of Movements by Harold Hilton (1903)
"CHAPTER XXI rhombohedral GROUPS. . § 1. The point-groups of the rhombohedral
system all possess one 3-al rotation-axis; therefore the isomorphous ..."
4. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatises on the Principles of by William Somerville Orr (1855)
"rhombohedral cerium ore, 513. rhombohedral corundum, 507. rhombohedral ...
rhombohedral system of crystals, 384 et seq. rhombohedral system, combinations of ..."
5. Handbook of Mineralogy, Blowpipe Analysis, and Geometrical Crystallography by Gurdon Montague Butler (1911)
"The names of the resulting rhombohedral ... forms are shown on the following
table: The rhombohedral ..."
6. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Georgia (1908)
"rhombohedral CRYSTALS OF CALCITE.—The calcite which occurs in the form of small
... The rhombohedral crystals are often well developed along the margin of ..."
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