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Meaning of MONOCLINIC

Pronunciation:  `mânow'klinik

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  (crystallography) having three unequal crystal axes with one oblique intersection; "monoclinic system"
 
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 Antonyms: anorthic, triclinic
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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}.
 
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