eightling

English edit

Etymology edit

From eight +‎ -ling.

Noun edit

eightling (plural eightlings)

(crystallography) A compound or twin crystal made up of eight individuals, such as are common with rutile.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “eightling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)