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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HEM'ITROPE, a. [Gr. half, and to turn.] Half-turned; a hemitrope crystal is one in which one segment is turned through half the circumference of a circle. The word is used also as a noun.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hemitrope Hem"i*trope, a. [Hemi- + Gr. ? to turn: cf. F. h['e]mitrope.] Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hemitrope Hem"i*trope, n. That which is hemitropal in construction; (Crystallog.) a twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.





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