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hemidome
hemidome Cryst. (ˈhɛmɪdəʊm) [f. hemi- + dome n. 5 b.] A pair of parallel and equal faces, parallel to the orthodiagonal in the monoclinic (or monosymmetrical) system (in which two such pairs constitute a dome). Hence hemidoˈmatic a., of or pertaining to a hemidome.1868 Dana Min. Introd. (ed. 5) 27 M...
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hemi-
hemi-, prefix (ˈhɛmɪ-, ˈhiːmɪ-) [a. Gr. ἡµι-, combining element, from earlier *σᾱµι- = L. sēmi-, Skr. sāmi-, OTeut. *sâmi-, OE. sam-, all meaning ‘half-’. Several Gr. words containing this element were in use as technical terms in later L., e.g. hēmicyclium, hēmīna, hēmisphærium, hēmistichium. In th...
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ortho- before a vowel sometimes orth-, combining form of Gr. ὀρθός ‘straight, right’, an element of various words, chiefly scientific or technical, sometimes in the physical sense ‘straight’, sometimes in the ethical sense ‘right, correct, proper’. 1. In technical words generally (for the more impor...
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