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oligocrystalline

oligocrystalline adjective: having a few columnar grains parallel to its longitudinal axis.

Adjective

oligocrystalline (not comparable)

  1. Having a few columnar grains parallel to its longitudinal axis
    • When Chen et al. (2015, Acta Mater. 87, 78-85) investigated the deformation behavior of oligocrystalline gold microwires with varying diameters in both uniaxial tension and torsion, contrary size effects were observed for the different load cases.2016, Eric Bayerschen, Andreas Prahs, Stephan Wulfinghoff, Michael Ziemann, Patric A. Gruber, Mario Walter, Thomas Böhlke, “Modeling contrary size effects of tensile- and torsion-loaded...

Origin of oligocrystalline

From oligo- + crystalline.

Questions about oligocrystalline

What does oligocrystalline mean?
Oligocrystalline means having a few columnar grains parallel to its longitudinal axis.
What part of speech is oligocrystalline?
Oligocrystalline is an adjective.

Words near oligocrystalline in the dictionary

  1. oligoclones
  2. oligocone
  3. oligocracies
  4. oligocracy
  5. oligocratic
  6. oligocrystalline
  7. oligoculture
  8. oligocultures
  9. oligocyclic
  10. oligocyclopropyl
  11. oligocystic

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