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figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides. Diagonal bond (Masonry), herringbone work. See Herringbone, a. -- Diagonal built (Shipbuilding), built by forming the outer skin of two layers of planking, making angles of about 45º with the keel, in opposite directions. -- Dia…

In a diagonal direction.

Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism. Brachydiagonal axis, the shorter lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal.

That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle witch the vertical axis. See Crystallization. -- a.

The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism. See Crystallization.

The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.

en two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

Diagonally laid, as tiles; ridgewise.

norable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base. Bend sinister (Her.), an honorable ordinary drawn from the sinister chief to the dexter base.

Diagonally.

A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.

lied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).

A combination of two short rectangular glass prisms cemented together at their diagonal faces so as to form a cube; -- called also optical cube. It is used in one form of photometer.

t distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.

bic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.

To cut diagonally. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Diagonal. [Colloq.]

heckerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

sion. See Segmentation. -- Cubuc cleavage, cleavage parallel to the faces of a cube. -- Diagonal cleavage, cleavage parallel to ta diagonal plane. -- Egg clavage. (Biol.) See Segmentation. -- Lateral cleavage, cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Octahedral, Dodecahedral, or Rhombohedral, cleavage, cleavage…

of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.