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Definition of Hemitrope

1. a. Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.

2. n. That which is hemitropal in construction; (Crystallog.) a twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.

Definition of Hemitrope

1. Noun. (crystallography) A twin crystal having a hemitropal structure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hemitrope

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Medical Definition of Hemitrope

1. Half turned round; half inverted; having a twinned structure. Origin: Hemi- + Gr. To turn: cf. F. Hemitrope. That which is hemitropal in construction; a twin crystal having a hemitropal structure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Hemitrope

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy: Comprising an Introduction to the Science by William Phillips, Robert Allan, Francis Alger (1844)
"hemitrope Crystals. Crystals of certain minerals present us with singular appearances or changes, which we may suppose them to have undergone, ..."

2. A Familiar Introduction to Crystallography by Henry James Brooke (1823)
"SECTION I3L hemitrope AND INTERSECTED CRYSTALS. ... The term hemitrope has been derived from the resemblance of this class of forms to crystals ..."

3. Lectures on Mineralogy: Delivered at the School of Mines, Columbia College by Thomas Egleston (1886)
"hemitrope from the preceding. Fig. 8. The same, but with the plane in a ... hemitrope of Fig. 2. Fig. 11. Trilling, formed by the repetition of the ..."

4. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1824)
"In the same collection are found crystals which are not hemitrope, ... However, most of the crystals are hemitrope, but their form is generally much more ..."

5. Lectures on Polarized Light: Together with a Lecture on the Microscope by Jonathan Pereira (1854)
"Macles, or hemitrope crystals of selenite, are very common. By hemitrope, a word derived from the Greek (from fat half, and T penco I turn), ..."

6. Journal and Proceedings by Royal Society of New South Wales (1868)
"One of a rich dark-green was found in the form of a flattened hemitrope ... The flattened triangular hemitrope crystals are very common ; one specimen of ..."

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