单词 | polysymmetry |
释义 | polysymmetryn. rare. 1. Botany. The condition of being polysymmetrical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > [noun] > monosymmetry or polysymmetry monosymmetry1875 polysymmetry1875 zygomorphism1875 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > symmetry or arrangement of symmetry1845 polysymmetry1875 pleiomery1887 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 184 The same relationship occurs between polysymmetry and multilateral arrangement as between monosymmetry and bilateral arrangement. 1999 Systematic Biol. 48 634/1 The most common forms of flower symmetry are actinomorphy (radial symmetry, polysymmetry), in which multiple axes of symmetry bisect the flower, and zygomorphy..with a single vertical axis of symmetry bisecting the flower. 2. Crystallography. The property of a mineral of exhibiting characteristics of two different symmetries. ΚΠ 1906 H. Marshall tr. P. Groth Introd. Chem. Crystallogr. 5 There is..another phenomenon which must be distinguished from polymorphism, and which we shall call polysymmetry. 1906 J. P. Iddings Rock Minerals ii. 67 This is called polysymmetry, and is illustrated by orthoclase feldspar. 1935 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 229 167 Advocates of the concept of polysymmetry who contended that enstatite was merely clino-enstatite submicroscopically twinned. 1999 I. Kostov & R. I. Kostov Crystal Habits Minerals ii. 21 Chronological list of important events related to crystal symmetry and morphology of minerals...1864 Scacchi—‘polysymmetry’ of crystals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1875 |
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