adjective
- relating to or having a crystal system characterized by three unequal axes that intersect at oblique angles
Usage: crystallography
Examples
- The mineral sample displayed a triclinic crystal structure.
- Triclinic crystals have the lowest symmetry of all crystal systems.
- The geologist identified the specimen as having triclinic properties.
- In triclinic systems, all three axes are of different lengths.
- The laboratory analysis confirmed the triclinic nature of the crystal.
- Students learned to distinguish triclinic crystals from cubic ones.