Z-DIRECTION

Domain	Definition
Mining	One of three orthogonal optic directions in biaxial crystals. Light with its electric vector (vibration direction in early terminology) parallel to the z-direction has the highest refractive index (ngamma ) for a given crystal and is called the slow ray. In orthorhombic crystals, the z-direction is constrained by symmetry to correspond to one of the crystallographic directions, the correspondence determined empirically. In monoclinic crystals, one optic direction, commonly the y-direction, is constrained by symmetry to correspond to the unique diad. In triclinic crystals, there is no symmetrical constraint relating optic directions tocrystallographic axes. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Z-DIRECTION

"Z-DIRECTION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Z-DIRECTION" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Anagrams: Z-DIRECTION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-n-o-r-t-z"
	-1 letter: direction.
	-2 letters: centroid, doctrine, indicter, indictor, indirect, ironized, reindict, retinoid.
	-3 letters: citizen, citrine, cointer, cordite, crinite, crinoid, ctenoid, deontic, dictier, diction, dineric, dinitro, diorite, ditzier, edition, ericoid, identic, incited, inciter, inditer, iodizer, ionized, ionizer, ironize, neritic, nitride, noritic, noticed, noticer, oneiric, zincite, zincoid.
	-4 letters: cinder, citied, citrin, citron, codein, coedit, coined, coiner, corned, cornet.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-n-o-r-t-z"
	+2 letters: romanticized.
	+3 letters: containerized, democratizing.
	+4 letters: decolorization, fractionalized, unromanticized.
	+5 letters: decarburization, decolorizations, democratization, desacralization.
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