plagihedral

English edit

Etymology edit

Ancient Greek oblique + base, seat.

Adjective edit

plagihedral (comparative more plagihedral, superlative most plagihedral)

(crystallography) Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as in levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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