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Definition of Octahedral
1. a. Having eight faces or sides; of, pertaining to, or formed in, octahedrons; as, octahedral cleavage.
Definition of Octahedral
1. Adjective. having eight plane surfaces; thus, in the shape or form of an octahedron ¹
2. Adjective. of, or pertaining to octahedra ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Octahedral
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Octahedral
1.
Having eight faces or sides; of, pertaining to, or formed in, octahedrons; as, octahedral cleavage.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octahedral
Literary usage of Octahedral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"Intersections of Cubic and octahedral Planes with an octahedral Face and with
... 42, they surround an octahedral plane. If they are produced till they meet ..."
2. Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae by Samuel Wendell Williston (1886)
"octahedral ammoniac salt. See Sal ammoniac. octahedral ... octahedral copper ore.
See Cuprite. octahedral copper pyrites. See Born- it« and Chalcopyrite. ..."
3. Linear Groups: With an Exposition of the Galois Field Theory by Leonard Eugene Dickson (1901)
"27i€ tetrahedral and octahedral subgroups of the GU(,)- A group of either ...
There is no octahedral subgroup of G^,—1> since the substitutions of period p ..."
4. Treatise on Mineralogy: Or, The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom by Friedrich Mohs (1825)
"... of the following dimensions: ab AB 118° 4'10". 30° 57'55". 141° 3l 28".
152° 44' 2". 4. Examples of this form are found in octahedral Fluor- ..."
5. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1819)
"M.Robiquet made use of octahedral crystals of oxide of iron extracted from ...
He extracted about six per cent, of this oxide from the octahedral ore which ..."
6. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by ROBERT. JAMESON (1820)
"Phosphate of Iron, 8.75. Water, 10.00." GENUS III. FLUOR. THIS Genus contains
but one species, viz. octahedral Fluor. 1. octahedral Fluor. Flus, Werner. ..."
7. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"Then we have what is termed the octahedral form of silicon. ... It crystallises
in the regular cubical system to which the regular octahedral belongs. ..."
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