Word Meanings - ORTHODIAGONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.

Related words: (words related to ORTHODIAGONAL)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• CRYSTALLOID
  Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.
• CRYSTALLIZATION
  The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
• CRYSTAL
  The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.
• CRYSTALLIZE
  To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHER
  One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• CRYSTALLOMETRY
  The art of measuring crystals.
• VERTICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one. Charity . . . is the vertical top of all religion. Jer. Taylor. 2. Perpendicular to the plane
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• CRYSTALLIZABLE
  Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.
• RIGHTEOUS
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
• CRYSTALLURGY
  Crystallizaton.
• DIAGONAL
  Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides. Diagonal bond , herringbone work. See Herringbone, a. -- Diagonal built , built by forming
• RIGHTEN
  To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17.
• RIGHT-LINED
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• CRYSTALLITE
  A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form
• BRIGHT
  See I
• HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• OVERRIGHTEOUS
  Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• AFFRIGHTER
  One who frightens.