rotation axis

noun

: a simple axis of symmetry in a crystal about which the whole crystal configuration is brought into coincidence with its original aspect by a rotation of one half, one third, one fourth, or one sixth of a turn about the axis

Word History

First Known Use

1937, in the meaning defined above

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