tetartohedral
[ ti-tahr-toh-hee-druh l ]
/ tɪˌtɑr toʊˈhi drəl /
adjective
(of a crystal) having one fourth the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
Origin of tetartohedral
1855–60; < Greek
tétarto(s) one fourth +
-hedral
OTHER WORDS FROM tetartohedral
te·tar·to·he·dral·ly, adverb te·tar·to·he·drism, nounWords nearby tetartohedral
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Example sentences from the Web for tetartohedral
This is bounded by twelve irregular pentagons, and is a tetartohedral or quarter-faced form of the hexakis-octahedron.
These systems, however, only represented holohedral forms, leaving the hemihedral and tetartohedral classes to be explained.
British Dictionary definitions for tetartohedral
tetartohedral
/ (tɪˌtɑːtəʊˈhiːdrəl) /
adjective
(of a crystal) having one quarter of the number of faces necessary for the full symmetry of its crystal system
Derived forms of tetartohedral
tetartohedrally, adverb tetartohedralism or tetartohedrism, nounWord Origin for tetartohedral
C19: from Greek
tetartos one fourth +
-hedral