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Pseudo-symmetry
Pseuˊdo-sym′me-try
,Noun.
[
Pseudo-
+ symmetry
.] (Crystallog.)
A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.