Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HEM'I-TROPE
HEM'I-TROPE, a. [Gr. ἡμισυς, half, and τροπη, a turning.]
Half-turned; a hemitrope crystal is one in which one segment is turned through half the circumference of a circle. The word is used also as a noun. – Haüy.
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