Pseu`do-sym"me*try (?), n. [Pseudo- + symmetry.] Crystallog.

A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.

 

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