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Definition of Acuminating
1. acuminate [v] - See also: acuminate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acuminating
Literary usage of Acuminating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the External, Chemical, and Physical Characters of Minerals by Robert Jameson (1816)
"The angles between the acuminating planes, and the lateral planes of the fundamental
figure, lì. The terminal or summit angle. ..."
2. A Treatise on the External Characters of Fossils by Abraham Gottlob Werner (1805)
"The situation of the acuminating planes, which occur either at the solid angles
... Their number, the acuminating planes being either equal to or fewer than ..."
3. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by ROBERT. JAMESON (1820)
"The preceding figure, in which the lateral edges, and also those formed by the
meeting of the acuminating planes, arc truncated +. Fig. 188. PL 9. ..."
4. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Robert Jameson, Wernerian Natural History Society (1826)
"In some specimens, the length of the crystals is three or four times greater than
the breadth, and in others the crystal is so short, that the acuminating ..."
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