crystallographicadj.
/ˌkrɪstələˈɡrafɪk/, /ˌkrɪstl̩əˈɡrafɪk/, U.S. /ˌkrɪstələˈɡræfɪk/ Of or relating to crystallography or its subject matter.
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1804 Edinb. Rev. 3 497 The important consequences of Haüy's crystallographic discoveries.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius x. 290 The three minerals have nearly the same crystallographic angles.
1905 Nature 13 Apr. 574/2 Further crystallographic and chemical details were given of the three new red minerals.
1957 Adv. Protein Chem. 12 149 In crystallographic jargon a nonintegral screw axis is a pseudo-axis.
2005 R. E. Newnham Properties of Materials ix. 64 In keeping with customary crystallographic notation, the triclinic interaxial angles are α, β and γ.
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crystallographic axis n. each of three axes used to define the edges of the unit cell of a crystal.
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1823 D. Brewster Ferguson's Lect. Select Subj. (ed. 3) II. xviii. 346 Crystallized bodies which have the form of their primitive crystals..have all one axis of double refraction, coincident with the crystallographic axes of these different solids.
1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks ix. 84 In the rhombic system the three axes of elasticity coincide with the three crystallographic axes.
1933 W. H. Bragg & W. L. Bragg Crystalline State I. viii. 198 The relative movement occurs along a definite crystallographic axis lying in the plane, the ‘glide direction’.
1996 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 263 135/2 The c crystallographic axis forms a constant angle of about 65° with the direction of the spicule morphological axis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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