• Pinacoid

    Origin

    Ancient Greek πινάκιον (pinakion, "slab, tablet") + -oid.

    Full definition of pinacoid

    Noun

    pinacoid

    (plural pinacoids)
    1. (crystallography) The face of a crystal parallel to two of the axes.
      • January 16, The crystallographic symmetry is initially broken toward dilation symmetry by the splitting of the basal pinacoid or the pseudohexagonal bipyramidal faces of the growing crystal core.
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