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Trigonal meaning
- Having three angles and three sides, triangular.
- Of or pertaining to a crystal system with three equal and equally inclined but not perpendicular axes.
- Relating to the trigone
Synonyms of Trigonal
Using Trigonal
- The main meaning on this page is: Having three angles and three sides, triangular. | Of or pertaining to a crystal system with three equal and equally inclined but not perpendicular axes. | Relating to the trigone
- Useful related words include: rhombohedral, symmetrical, symmetric.
- In the example corpus, trigonal often appears in combinations such as: trigonal planar, bicapped trigonal, trigonal prism.
Context around Trigonal
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 1 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Trigonal
- In this selection, "trigonal" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bicapped, planar, prism and trapezohedron stand out and add context to how "trigonal" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bicapped trigonal prism arrangement and a bicapped trigonal prismatic arrangement. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "trigonal" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with trigonal
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The trigonal form is obtained by slow cooling from the melt. (11 words)
PF 5 is a colourless gas and the molecules have trigonal bypramidal geometry. (13 words)
The oxygen anions have a co-ordination number of 3 resulting in a trigonal planar co-ordination. (17 words)
The EsF 3 crystal structure is hexagonal, as in californium(III) fluoride (CfF 3 ) where the Es 3+ ions are 8-fold coordinated by fluorine ions in a bicapped trigonal prism arrangement. (32 words)
Physical properties Crystal structure Tri-color elbaite crystals on quartz, Himalaya Mine, San Diego Co., California, US Tourmaline is a six-member ring cyclosilicate having a trigonal crystal system. (29 words)
In monoclinic, rhombohedral, tetragonal, and trigonal/hexagonal systems there is one unique axis (sometimes called the principal axis) which has higher rotational symmetry than the other two axes. (28 words)
Example sentences (11)
A rhombohedron is a parallelepiped with all rhombic faces; a trigonal trapezohedron is a rhombohedron with congruent rhombic faces.
Brown-colored protactinium(III) iodide has been reported where protactinium ions are 8-coordinated in a bicapped trigonal prismatic arrangement.
In monoclinic, rhombohedral, tetragonal, and trigonal/hexagonal systems there is one unique axis (sometimes called the principal axis) which has higher rotational symmetry than the other two axes.
It consists of a trigonal prism with a technetium atom in the center and six hydrogen atoms at the corners.
Ketones are trigonal planar around the ketonic carbon, with C−C−O and C−C−C bond angles of approximately 120°.
PF 5 is a colourless gas and the molecules have trigonal bypramidal geometry.
Physical properties Crystal structure Tri-color elbaite crystals on quartz, Himalaya Mine, San Diego Co., California, US Tourmaline is a six-member ring cyclosilicate having a trigonal crystal system.
The EsF 3 crystal structure is hexagonal, as in californium(III) fluoride (CfF 3 ) where the Es 3+ ions are 8-fold coordinated by fluorine ions in a bicapped trigonal prism arrangement.
The oxygen anions have a co-ordination number of 3 resulting in a trigonal planar co-ordination.
These minerals resemble silicates in some respect, although boron is often found not only in a tetrahedral coordination with oxygen, but also in a trigonal planar configuration.
The trigonal form is obtained by slow cooling from the melt.
Common combinations with trigonal
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- trigonal planar 3×
- bicapped trigonal 2×
- trigonal prism 2×
- in trigonal 2×