Definition of Tetartohedral

1. a. Having one fourth the number of planes which are requisite to complete symmetry.

Definition of Tetartohedral

1. Adjective. (crystallography) Having one fourth of the number of planes required for complete symmetry. ¹

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Definition of Tetartohedral

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Tetartohedral

1. Having one fourth the number of planes which are requisite to complete symmetry. Tetartohe"drally. Origin: Gr. Fourth + base. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Tetartohedral

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

1. Handbook of Mineralogy, Blowpipe Analysis, and Geometrical Crystallography by Gurdon Montague Butler (1911)
"PENTAGONAL tetartohedral DIVISION Pentagonal tetartohedral isometric forms may be conceived to be developed by the simultaneous application of any two ..."

2. A Manual of Geometrical Crystallography, Treating Solely of Those Portions by Gurdon Montague Butler (1918)
"PENTAGONAL tetartohedral DIVISION Pentagonal tetartohedral isometric forms may be conceived to be developed by the simultaneous application of any two ..."

3. A Manual of Geometrical Crystallography: Treating Solely of Those Portions by Gurdon Montague Butler (1918)
"The names of the resulting rhombohedral tetartohedral forms together with their symbols, number of faces, and the name of the corresponding ..."

4. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1922)
"The remaining forms of the class are (besides the cube and rhombic Symmetry of tetartohedral Class dodecahedron) the tetrahedrons, ..."

5. A System of Crystallography, with Its Application to Mineralogy by John Joseph Griffin (1841)
"If there are four kinds of octants, a tetartohedral form is present. 286. It only remains to be added, that the planes of all ..."

6. Elementary Crystallography: Being Part One of General Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1910)
"... forms indicated above, only those may be found in combination that are represented by the symbols in the same vertical columns. tetartohedral DIVISION. ..."

7. Elementary Crystallography: Being Part One of General Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1910)
"... forms indicated above, only those may be found in combination that are represented by the symbols in the same vertical columns. tetartohedral DIVISION. ..."

8. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1898)
"tetartohedral GROUP (12). 107. Symmetry. — The seventh and last possible group under this system has no plane nor center of symmetry, but the vertical axis ..."

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