pole figure
Metallurgy
noun
A circular diagram that is a stereographic projection of a sphere showing the positions of the poles of one or more lattice planes of a crystal or crystalline substance, the intensity of a spot in the diagram being proportional to the number of planes having the corresponding orientation.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. After German Polfigur.
- orthopercussion
- orthophonic
- orthophony
- orthophoria
- orthophosphate
- orthophosphoric acid
- orthophoto
- orthophotograph
- orthophotomap
- orthophyre
- orthophyric
- orthopinacoid
- orthopinakoid
- orthoploid
- orthopnea
- orthopneic
- roll-neck
- rollocking
- rollock naked
- rollocks
- roll-off
- roll of honour
- roll on
- roll one's own
- roll-on roll-off