homohedral

English

Etymology

From homo- +‎ -hedral.

Adjective

homohedral (not comparable)

1. Having equal or corresponding faces.
   • 1841, John Joseph Griffin, “Principles of Crystallography”, in A System of Crystallography, with Its Application to Mineralogy, Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company. And Thomas Tegg, London, section XIII (An Inquiry into the variety of Forms and Combinations which occur upon the Crystals of Minerals), subsection I (The Octahedral System of Crystallisation), subsubsection 4 (The Hemihexakisoctahedron with inclined faces), § 450, page 217:

     The second is a hemihedral combination of which no corresponding homohedral variety has been discovered, and no hemihexakisoctahedrons have been found to correspond with the rest of the known hexakisoctahedrons, § 408.

   • 1851, M. L. Pasteur, “On the Characteristic Properties of the two Acids which compose Racemic Acid”, in Henry Watts, editor, The Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London, volume III, number IX, London: Hippolyte Bailliere, […] New-York, […]. Paris: J. B. Baillière, […], Madrid: Bailly Baillière, […], page 82:

     M. Pasteur has also carefully examined the crystalline forms of several salts of racemic acid,—particularly the neutral and acid racemates of soda and the racemate of antimony and potash—and finds them all perfectly homohedral.

   • 2013, G. Kiper, E. Söylemez, “Homohedral and Tangential Polyhedral Linkages”, in Fernando Viadero, Marco Ceccarelli, editors, New Trends in Mechanism and Machine Science: Theory and Applications in Engineering, Springer, →ISBN, page 383:

     Homohedral and tangential polyhedral shapes are found to be suitable for the task and some examples of linkages are worked out.