hemitrope

English

Etymology

hemi- +‎ -trope

Adjective

hemitrope (not comparable)

1. Half turned round; half inverted; (crystallography) having a twinned structure.

Noun

hemitrope (plural hemitropes)

1. (crystallography) A twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.

Related terms

• hemitropal
• hemitropic
• hemitropism
• hemitropy

 

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)