Semiform
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Semiform is a noun meaning A partial or imperfect form.
Meaning
A partial or imperfect form.
More Meanings
- (crystallography) A crystal structure that is more elaborate than the simplest (primitive) form but which does not include all the faces and symmetry elements characteristic of the full crystal system.
Example Sentences
The semiform is covered with a thermoplastic bar preheated in a special chamber up to superelastic state .
This semiform π (312) is again to be observed on crystal No. 13, though it is there represented by only a single face.
The eight normals of the tetragonal scalenohedron may carry the eight faces of a semiform in other ways than asymmetrically as regards the systematic planes.
Prior to that it was in a semiform state for 2 years, semiform state being that various groups have gotten together to say there should be a committee, so that would be approximately 5 years' life to the committee.
Word Forms
- semiforms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include semifigure, subquadrangle, biformity, semilethal, fragment, semiclosure.
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