(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:32:44

Cli`no*pin"a*coid (?), n. [Gr. to incline + E. pinacoid.] Crystallog.

The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.

 

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