pseudosymmetry

[ soo-doh-sim-i-tree ]

nounCrystallography.
  1. an apparent symmetry different from that appropriate to a crystal of a given mineral.

Origin of pseudosymmetry

1
First recorded in 1885–90; pseudo- + symmetry

Words Nearby pseudosymmetry

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