Lexic.us

Definition of Twinned

1. Adjective. Being two identical.

Definition of Twinned

1. a. Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.

Definition of Twinned

1. Verb. (past of twin) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Twinned

1. twin [v] - See also: twin

Medical Definition of Twinned

1. Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See Twin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Twinned

Literary usage of Twinned

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

1. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"might be overcome by using two wedges of different thicknesses, which makes of it, however, a Wiedemann double double-quartz wedge. 345. Sommerfeldt twinned ..."

2. Fieldiana by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum, Field Columbian Museum (1895)
"Only a few twinned crystals were noted among those examined. The larger number of those noted are twinned upon the basal plane. These occur of both Types 3 ..."

3. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"Twin Axis. which is a possible edge on each, the crystals so united are said to be ''twinned"; the plane of symmetry is called the "twin plane," and the ..."

4. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"The surface bands and the twinned zones of Fig. B of Plate 29 bear to each other the same relation as regards their order of magnitude that slip bands bear ..."

5. Crystallography: A Treatise on the Morphology of Crystals by Nevil Story-Maskelyne (1895)
"The twinned forms in this system are numerous, and present considerable ... In this system the twinned forms can always be explained by taking for the ..."

6. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"Clinochlore twinned According to Mica Law, in which the Twinning Plane is Perpendicular to ... twinned about oP(oo1) as Twinning and Composition Face. ..."

7. The Methods of Petrographic-microscopic Research, Their Relative Accuracy by Frederic Eugene Wright (1911)
"twinned SELENITE PLATE. The use of a twinned selenite plate has been recommended recently ... ARTIFICIALLY twinned QUARTZ PLATE.t Still another advantageous ..."

8. Hints for Crystal Drawing by Margaret Reeks (1908)
"FOR the construction of twinned forms the profile method is most useful. ... To draw the twinned crystal, begin by drawing an octahedron, making an 0 plan ..."

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