uniaxial

/yoo-nee-ak-see-uhl/US // ˌyu niˈæk si əl //UK // (ˌjuːnɪˈæksɪəl) //

单轴,单轴线,单轴的,单轴线上

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : having one axis.
- : Crystallography. having one direction in which double refraction does not occur.
- : Botany. having a primary stem that does not branch and that terminates in a flower.

In uniaxial crystals the number of absorption spectra is reduced to two.
We call the former uniaxial (monaxonia), and the latter transverse-axial (stauraxonia).
A sphere cut from a uniaxial crystal at one temperature will be a spheroid at another temperature.
Optically uniaxial crystals—corresponding with the tetragonal and hexagonal systems.