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Tetragonal vs Disphenoid - What's the difference?

tetragonal | disphenoid |

As adjectives the difference between tetragonal and disphenoid

is that tetragonal is having four sides (as a tetragon); quadrilateral while disphenoid is describing a wedge-shaped crystal form of the tetragonal or orthorhombic system.

As a noun disphenoid is

a polyhedron whose four faces are identical isosceles or scalene triangles.

tetragonal

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having four sides (as a tetragon); quadrilateral.
  • (crystallography) Having two equal axes and one unequal, and all angles 90°.

    • Derived terms

    * ditetragonal

    Coordinate terms

    * triclinic * monoclinic * orthorhombic * hexagonal * rhombohedral * cubic ----

    disphenoid

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (mineralogy) Describing a wedge-shaped crystal form of the tetragonal or orthorhombic system.
  • (mineralogy) Describing a crystal form bounded by eight scalene triangles arranged in pairs, constituting a tetragonal scalenohedron.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geometry) A polyhedron whose four faces are identical isosceles or scalene triangles.