1858 Dana Min. (ed. 4) 49They are *tetartohedral forms, or contain only one-fourth the number of planes occurring under complete symmetry.
1864 Watts Dict. Chem. II. 144Quartz likewise exhibits other forms of tetartohedral development.
1888 Rutley Rock-FormingMin. 64The development of certain plagihedral, or tetartohedral, faces.
1864 Webster, *Tetartohedrally.
1854 Pereira's Pol. Light 234Doubly oblique prismatic system..or the *tetartohedric-rhombic system.
1860 Mayne Expos. Lex. ,*Tetartohedrical.
1858 Dana Min. (ed. 4) 49A form of this kind..is found in Titanic Iron, and is called rhombohedral *tetartohedrism.
1895 Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. 160The ambiguity in which the terms hemihedrism, tetartohedrism, etc. are involved.
Ibid. 231There can only be a single kind of *tetartohedron in the Cubic system.
1864 Watts Dict. Chem. II. 144*Tetartohedry. Quartz affords a remarkable example of a combination in which only one-fourth of the possible faces are present.
1895 Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. 284Six faces corresponding to three normals: *tetarto-hexagonal diplohedral forms. Three faces corresponding to three normals: tetarto-hexagonal haplohedral forms.
1847 Webster, *Tetartoprismatic,..one fourth prismatic, applied to oblique rhombic prisms.—Mohs.
1851 Richardson's Geol. v. (1855) 98Classification of Mohs..V. The Tetarto-Prismatic is composed of the oblique rhomboidal prism.
1891 Cent. Dict. ,*Tetartopyramid,..a quarter-pyramid: said of the pyramidal planes of the triclinic system, which appear in sets of two (that is, one fourth the number required by a complete pyramid).
1895 Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. 159Mero-symmetrical forms may be hemi-symmetrical..*tetarto-symmetrical, presenting one-quarter only of the faces of the holo-symmetrical form.
Ibid. 160*Tetarto-symmetry, where the form is (i) hemi⁓systematic and haplohedral, (ii) *tetarto-systematic and diplohedral.
Ibid. 308Tetarto-systematic haplohedral forms.
1857 Dunglison Dict. Med. Sc. ,Tetartophia,..a quartan, in which the intermission is inordinately short or imperfect.
1895 Funk's Stand. Dict. ,Tetartophyia.
ORIGIN: from Greek tetartos fourth: see -o- .
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