clinopinacoid

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English

Etymology

From clino- +‎ pinacoid.

Noun

clinopinacoid (plural clinopinacoids)

  1. (crystallography) The plane in monoclinic crystals that is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinodiagonal) axes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for clinopinacoid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)