rotation axis

rotation axis
Crystall.
an imaginary line through a crystal about which the crystal may be rotated a specified number of degrees and be brought back to its original position. Also called axis of symmetry, symmetry axis of rotation. Cf. symmetry element.
[1900-05]

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