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acicular

WordNet
  1. (adj) acicular
    narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Acicular
    Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needles.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. acicular
    Having the shape of a slender needle or stout bristle; having a sharp point like a needle: as, an acicular prism, like those of stibnite; an acicular bill, as that of a humming-bird. Other forms are aciculate, aciculated, aciculiform, and aciculine.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Acicular
    as-ik′ū-lar needle-shaped; slender and sharp-pointed
  2. Acicular
    Also Acic′ulate, Acic′ulated
Usage in scientific papers

Such martensites are called acicular martensites.
Arrested States of Solids

Optical micrographs of acicular martensites reveal that the jammed plates lie along habit planes that criss-cross and partition the surrounding fcc (parent) matrix.
Arrested States of Solids

There have been similar suggestion in the literature, but as far as we know there has been no direct visualization studies of the microstructure of acicular martensites using optical micrographs.
Arrested States of Solids

Usage in literature

Soon Birdie and myself were a mass of acicular crystals; it was a true easterly fog. "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" by Isabella L. Bird

The obelisk is from another of Nature's patterns; it is only a gigantic acicular crystal. "Over the Teacups" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Hyoscyamine crystallizes in the acicular form, with greater difficulty even than atropine, it also forms less compact crystals. "Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882" by Various

Not far from the shore, I noticed, in a little ravine, a group of eight acicular-leaved trees. "A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy" by Ida Pfeiffer

Soon Birdie and myself were a mass of acicular crystals; it was a true easterly fog. "Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century" by W. H. Davenport Adams

The plumbago occurs both amorphous, and in long acicular crystals. "In the Arctic Seas" by Francis Leopold McClintock