trimorphism
/trai'mɔ:fizm/
📖 中文释义
- 同质三晶形
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. The property of crystallizing in three forms
- fundamentally distinct, as is the case with titanium dioxide, which
- crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See
- Pleomorphism.
- n. The coexistence among individuals of the same species
- of three distinct forms, not connected, as a rule, by intermediate
- gradations; the condition among individuals of the same species of
- having three different shapes or proportions of corresponding parts; --
- contrasted with polymorphism, and dimorphism.