crystallographic

[ kris-tl-uh-graf-ik ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography

Other Words From

• crys·tal·lo·graph·i·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of crystallographic¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; crystallo- + -graphic

Example Sentences

He returned to London and confirmed that his most recent crystallographic data, as well as Franklin’s, clearly supported a double helix.

From Literature

Accompanying the article was another, by Gosling and Franklin, providing strong crystallographic evidence for the double-helical structure.

From Literature

One can speculate that the movement of polar walls17 — boundaries that form between two STO domains that have different crystallographic orientations18 — produces the spikes of current observed by Noël and co-workers.

From Nature

Whereas the crystallographic restriction theorem asserted that crystals can possess only two-, three- four- or sixfold rotationally symmetry, the Bragg diffraction pattern of quasicrystals shows other symmetry orders—such as a fivefold symmetry.

From Scientific American

Qiu et al. attributed this effect to a process referred to as domain swinging, whereby the 71° walls alternate between two crystallographic planes and tend to merge, thereby decreasing their number.

From Nature