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Definition of Twinning
1. Adjective. Producing two offspring at a time.
Definition of Twinning
1. n. The assemblage of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about.
Definition of Twinning
1. Verb. (present participle of twin) ¹
2. Noun. action of the verb ''to twin'' ¹
3. Noun. giving birth to twins ¹
4. Noun. the pairing of similar objects (such as towns) ¹
5. Noun. (minerology) the formation of twin crystals ¹
6. Noun. (transport) the conversion of a road into a dual carriageway ¹
7. Adjective. biparous ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twinning
1. the bearing of two children at the same birth [n -S]
Medical Definition of Twinning
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Twinning
Literary usage of Twinning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1922)
"448 a 446 447 448 Orthoclase Manebach twin is shown; here the twinning-plane is
c(001). Other rarer types of twinning have been noted with orthoclase. ..."
2. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1898)
"In chalcopyrite, of the sphenoidal group, twinning with a face of the unit pyramid,
... Other rarer kinds of twinning have also been noted. 379. 380. 381. ..."
3. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"The plane normal to the twin axis is called the twinning plane, and the plane of
... Many minerals frequently exhibit twinning, and in some it serves as an ..."
4. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"This chapter considers annealing twins primarily, the following one taking up
the Neumann bands, and Chapter 24 the mechanism of twinning. 554. ..."
5. Crystallography: An Outline of the Geometrical Properties of Crystals by Thomas Leonard Walker (1914)
"The twinning plane obviously can never have the direction of a plane of symmetry
... This is a general effect of twinning. The normal to the twinning plane ..."
6. Essentials for the Microscopical Determination of Rock-forming Minerals and by Albert Johannsen (1922)
"They may be classified as follows: The twinning is one of the most important
characteristics of ... The three most important kinds of twinning are Carlsbad, ..."
7. Elements of Optical Mineralogy: An Introduction to Microscopic Petrography by Newton Horace Winchell, Alexander Newton Winchell (1908)
"The twinning axis is usually a crystallographic axis, or may be a line normal to
... The composition face though usually perpendicular to the twinning axis, ..."
8. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1900)
"and related gabbros in Minnesota, Canada, Newfoundland, Xew York, Finland, and
Russia. Physical Characters of Labradorite. The albite twinning is very ..."
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