pseudosymmetry

noun

pseu·​do·​symmetry

"+

: the apparent symmetry in crystals that come to resemble (as in the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite) forms of another system

Word History

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary pseud- + symmetry

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