hemitrope
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
hemitrope (not comparable)
- Half turned round; half inverted; (crystallography) having a twinned structure.
Noun edit
hemitrope (plural hemitropes)
- (crystallography) A twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.
Related terms edit
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “hemitrope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)