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Definition of Tetragonal
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or shaped like a quadrilateral.
Definition of Tetragonal
1. a. Of or pertaining to a tetragon; having four angles or sides; thus, the square, the parallelogram, the rhombus, and the trapezium are tetragonal fingers.
Definition of Tetragonal
1. Adjective. Having four sides (as a tetragon); quadrilateral. ¹
2. Adjective. (crystallography) Having two equal axes and one unequal, and all angles 90°. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tetragonal
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Literary usage of Tetragonal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1922)
"tetragonal SYSTEM 85. THE tetragonal SYSTEM includes all the forms which are
referred to three axes at right angles to each other of which the two ..."
2. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Study of Minerals and Crystals by Edward Henry Kraus, Walter Fred Hunt (1920)
"The tetragonal system includes all crystals which can be referred to three ...
tetragonal scalenohedral class. 4. tetragonal bipyramidal class. 5. ..."
3. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1898)
"tetragonal SYSTEM. 83. THE tetragonal SYSTEM includes all the forms which are
referred ) three rectangular axes of which the two lateral axes are equal to ..."
4. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1898)
"tetragonal SYSTEM. 83. THE tetragonal SYSTEM includes all the forms which are
referred to three rectangular axes of which the two lateral axes are equal to ..."
5. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1898)
"tetragonal SYSTEM. 83. THE tetragonal SYSTEM includes all the forms which are
referred to three rectangular axes of which the two lateral axes are equal to ..."
6. Dana's Manual of Mineralogy for the Student of Elementary Mineralogy, the by James Dwight Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1912)
"tetragonal SYSTEM. Crystallographic Axes. The crystallographic axes of the
tetragonal System are three in number and make right angles with each other. ..."
7. Introduction to the Study of Minerals: A Combined Textbook and Pocket Manual by Austin Flint Rogers (1912)
"THE tetragonal SYSTEM The tetragonal system includes j all crystals that can be
referred to three axes at right angles, two of which are interchangeable. ..."
8. A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1906)
"D* 16 19 14 tetragonal VI tetragonal I tetragonal II Name of class [Miers] ...
Cubic I 0 29 tetragonal tesseral central Cubic IV rw 31 digonal equatorial ..."
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