Hypertext Webster Gateway: "monoclinic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Monoclinic \Mon`o*clin"ic\, a. [Mono- + Gr. ? to incline.]
(Crystallog.)
Having one oblique intersection; -- said of that system of
crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to
one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See
{Crystallization}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
monoclinic
adj : (crystallography) having three unequal crystal axes with one
oblique intersection; "monoclinic system" [ant: {triclinic}]
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