Definition of Digonal

1. having half-turn symmetry [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Digonal

dignified
dignifiedly
dignifies
dignify
dignifying
dignitaries
dignitary
dignitie
dignities
dignity
dignosce
dignotion
dignotions
digold
digon
digonal (current term)
digonous
digons
digoxigenin
digoxigenins
digoxin
digoxin toxicity
digoxins
digoxygenin
digram
digrams
digraph
digraphia
digraphic
digraphically

Literary usage of Digonal

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

1. A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1906)
"The existence of a digonal axis, at right angles to an n-gonal axis, implies the existence of n such axes ; eg if the axis z is tetragonal, and the axis .i- ..."

2. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Theoretical and Practical Study of Minerals by Alexander Hamilton Phillips (1912)
"Pole on the side between the digonal and trigonal axes = ± tetragonal ... Pole on the digonal axes = hexahedron. Pole on the trigonal axes = ± tetrahedron. ..."

3. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"An ?t-gonal axis may be accompanied simply by axes of digonal symmetry perpendicular to it (without planes of symmetry); the symmetry is then called ..."

4. Guide to the Mineral Collections in the Illinois State Museum by Alja Robinson Crook, Illinois State Museum (1920)
"Since planes through any two of these digonal axes (a and c, or b and c, or a and b) are planes of symmetry, the digonal axes are called ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"... its minimum to the digonal axes, and it is in these directions that the atoms are respectively in closest proximity and the reverse; on the octahedral ..."

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