idiomorphic
Americanadjective
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Also (in a rock) noting or pertaining to a mineral constituent having its own characteristic outward crystalline form unaltered by the other constituents of the rock; automorphic.
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having its own characteristic form.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- idiomorphically adverb
- idiomorphism noun
Etymology
Origin of idiomorphic
1885–90; < Greek idiómorph ( os ) having an individual form ( idio-, -morphous ) + -ic
Example Sentences
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Idiomorphic, id-i-o-mor′fik, adj. having a peculiar or distinctive form.
From Project Gutenberg
Many felsites contain porphyritic crystals of clear quartz in rounded blebs, more or less idiomorphic felspar, and occasionally biotite.
From Project Gutenberg
The augite is mostly a variety of diopside and is only occasionally idiomorphic.
From Project Gutenberg
Nabokov's treatment of these themes is idiomorphic; his form is flashingly and immutably his own.
From Time Magazine Archive
The commonest type of structure in dolerite is the ophitic, which results from the felspar of the rock having crystallized before the augite; the latter mineral forms shapeless masses in which the idiomorphic felspars lie.
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