Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being, relating to, or composed of crystal or crystals.
- adjective Resembling crystal, as in transparency or distinctness of structure or outline. synonym: clear.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of crystal.
- Relating or pertaining to crystals or crystallization.
- Formed by crystallization; of the nature of a crystal, especially as regards its internal structure, cleavage, etc.: opposed to amorphous.
- Resembling crystal; pure; clear; transparent; pellucid: specifically applied in anatomy to several structures, as the crystalline humor, cones, etc. See below.
- In entomology, reflecting light like glass: specifically applied to the ocelli or simple eyes when they are apparently colorless, resembling glass.
- noun A crystallized rock, or one only partially crystallized, as granite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A crystalline substance.
- noun obsolete See
Aniline . - adjective Consisting, or made, of crystal.
- adjective Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.
- adjective Imperfectly crystallized.
- adjective Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid.
- adjective in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, two transparent spheres imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars and the
primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens, which by its motion was supposed to carry round all those within it), in order to explain certain movements of the heavenly bodies. - adjective (Anat.) the capsular lenslike body in the eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic epithelium.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or composed of
crystals - adjective chemistry having a
regular three-dimensional molecular structure - adjective resembling
crystal in beingclear andtransparent - noun obsolete Any crystalline
substance . - noun obsolete
aniline
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals
- adjective transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- adjective distinctly or sharply outlined
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In its citation, the Swedish academy said the duo achieved their result "at a time when many believed it was impossible for such thin crystalline materials to be stable."
Ultrathin Carbon Earns Nobel Gautam Naik 2010
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Its floor is covered in crystalline, perfectly faceted blocks.
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Hang it out on the line in crystalline clean mountain air.
The Return Fourteen 2005
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Hang it out on the line in crystalline clean mountain air.
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Hang it out on the line in crystalline clean mountain air.
The Return Fourteen 2005
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Hang it out on the line in crystalline clean mountain air.
The Return Fourteen 2005
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Now the whole Livewire in crystalline Element Lad body being hunted down as “The Progenitor” thing keeps my seatbelt on.
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One medical researcher who accidentally inhaled some of it in crystalline form said “It is not toxic, but if you inhale some of it, you will wish you were dead.”
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The geometric ordering of atoms in crystalline solids as well as the different kinds of magnetic order, are examples of general ordering phenomena in nature when systems find an energetically favorable arrangement by choosing a certain state of symmetry.
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The chains may be entangled like spaghetti (as above) or be ordered in crystalline formations.
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