triclinicadj.
/trʌɪˈklɪnɪk/, U.S. /traɪˈklɪnɪk/ Crystallography.
Applied to that system of crystalline forms in which the three axes are unequal and obliquely inclined (also called anorthic, tetartoprismatic, or doubly oblique); belonging to this system.
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1854 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 4) Introd. 29 In the Triclinic System, the three axes are unequal, and all the intersections are oblique.
1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xxv. 218 It [sc. copper sulphate] crystallizes in large blue crystals belonging to the triclinic system.
1897 A. Geikie Anc. Volcanoes Brit. I. 27 The bottom of the flow was thickly crowded with triclinic felspars and augites.
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