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pinacoid

pinacoid noun: the face of a crystal parallel to two of the axes.

Noun

pinacoid (plural pinacoids)

  1. The face of a crystal parallel to two of the axes.
    • The crystallographic symmetry is initially broken toward dilation symmetry by the splitting of the basal pinacoid or the pseudohexagonal bipyramidal faces of the growing crystal core.2009 January 16, Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz et al., “Morphogenesis of Self-Assembled Nanocrystalline Materials of Barium Carbonate and Silica”, in Science, volume 323, number 5912

Forms of pinacoid

pluralpinacoids

Origin of pinacoid

Ancient Greek πινάκιον (pinákion, “slab, tablet”) + -oid.

Words formed from pinacoid

Questions about pinacoid

What does pinacoid mean?
Pinacoid means the face of a crystal parallel to two of the axes.
What part of speech is pinacoid?
Pinacoid is a noun.
What is the plural of pinacoid?
The plural of pinacoid is pinacoids.

Words near pinacoid in the dictionary

  1. pinacocytes
  2. pinacocytic
  3. pinacoderm
  4. pinacodermal
  5. pinacoderms
  6. pinacoid
  7. pinacoidal
  8. pinacoids
  9. pinacol
  10. pinacol rearrangement
  11. pinacol rearrangements

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