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Definition of Pinacoid
1. n. A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes.
Definition of Pinacoid
1. Noun. (crystallography) The face of a crystal parallel to two of the axes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pinacoid
1. pinakoid [n -S] - See also: pinakoid
Medical Definition of Pinacoid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinacoid
Literary usage of Pinacoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Crystallography: An Outline of the Geometrical Properties of Crystals by Thomas Leonard Walker (1914)
"106 — Beryl showing _the prism of the first order, m, (1010); the basal pinacoid,
c, (0001); the pyramids of the first order, u, (2021) and p, (10l1); ..."
2. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"A form parallel to the first axis a and intersecting the other two is said to be
of the first order—pedion, pinacoid, sphenoid, dome, prism, ..."
3. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1922)
"This form is designated by the letter a, since it is situated at the extremity
of the a axis; it is hence conveniently called the a-face or a-pinacoid. ..."
4. Descriptive Mineralogy: With Especial Reference to the Occurrences and Uses by Edward Henry Kraus (1911)
"Contact (Figure 148) and penetration twins (sometimes cruciform) with the basal
pinacoid as the twinning plane are rather common. ..."
5. Tables for the Determination of Common Minerals Chiefly by Their Physical by William Otis Crosby (1895)
"The prefixes of the names pinacoid and dome are ortho and clino, instead of macro
and brachy; and we call the prism and pyramid monoclinic, ..."
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