Definition of Hemimorphism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemimorphism

hemimellitic
hemimetabola
hemimetabolic
hemimetabolism
hemimetabolous
hemimetaboly
hemimetamorphic
hemimetamorphosis
hemimetamorphous
hemimethylated
hemimethylated DNA
hemimicelle
hemimicelles
hemimorphic
hemimorphism (current term)
hemimorphisms
hemimorphite
hemin
heminae
heminas
hemins
hemiola
hemiolas
hemiolia
hemiolias
hemiolic
hemione
hemiones

Literary usage of Hemimorphism

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

1. Lecture Notes on General and Special Mineralogy by Frank Robertson Van Horn (1903)
"We have found that hemimorphism is the occurrence of half the number of ... As has been seen, hemimorphism sometimes results from the combination of two ..."

2. Mineralogy by Frederick Henry Hatch (1892)
"... hemimorphism, and twinning. In the first two FIG. 33.—OCTAHEDRON AND TETRAHEDRON, The suppression of the shaded faces in the former gives rise to the ..."

3. Annals of British Geology edited by John Frederick Blake (1891)
"The hemimorphism is shown by the fact that the striae on the upper part of the faces (o) run in one direction parallel to their intersections with those ..."

4. Annals of British Geology (1891)
"The hemimorphism is shown by the fact that the striae on the upper part of the faces (o) run in one direction parallel to their intersections with those ..."

5. Elements of Crystallography: For Students of Chemistry, Physics and Mineralogy by George Huntington Williams (1890)
"hemimorphism in the direction of the vertical axis produces the same result on ... combined with hemimorphism, but disguised by complex twinning. ..."

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