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melatope

melatope noun: an eye shape of concentric coloured optical fringes seen on a conoscopic interference pattern surrounding an optical axis. For biaxial minerals there are a pair of circles, like eyes.

Noun

melatope (plural melatopes)

  1. (microscopy) An eye shape of concentric coloured optical fringes seen on a conoscopic interference pattern surrounding an optical axis. For biaxial minerals there are a pair of circles, like eyes.

Forms of melatope

pluralmelatopes

Origin of melatope

Coined by A. Johannsen on page 420 in A Manual of Petrographic Methods McGraw-Hill 1918

Questions about melatope

What does melatope mean?
Melatope means an eye shape of concentric coloured optical fringes seen on a conoscopic interference pattern surrounding an optical axis. For biaxial minerals there are a pair of circles, like eyes.
What part of speech is melatope?
Melatope is a noun.
What is the plural of melatope?
The plural of melatope is melatopes.

Words near melatope in the dictionary

  1. melatonergic
  2. melatonergics
  3. melatonin
  4. melatoninergic
  5. melatonins
  6. melatope
  7. melatopes
  8. melatroctolite
  9. melatroctolites
  10. Melava Malka
  11. Melave Malka

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