CRYSTAL
\kɹˈɪstə͡l], \kɹˈɪstəl], \k_ɹ_ˈɪ_s_t_əl]\
Definitions of CRYSTAL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a protective cover that protects the face of a watch
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glassware made of quartz
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a crystalline element used as a component in various electronic devices
By Princeton University
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a protective cover that protects the face of a watch
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glassware made of quartz
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a crystalline element used as a component in various electronic devices
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.
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The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; -- called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian.
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A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass.
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The glass over the dial of a watch case.
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Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline.
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Clear; transparent.
By Oddity Software
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Clear; transparent.
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Transparent quartz; a body formed by a solidifying element or compound, having symmetrical plane surfaces; a glass of superior clearness; anything transparent and clear; the glass over a watch-dial.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Clear; transparent.
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Anything congealed like ice with smooth surfaces; any natural body transparent or semi-transparent; a transparent substance made by fusing certain bodies together, as an alkali with flint or sand and lead; a fine kind of glass.
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Consisting of crystal; clear; transparent.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A superior kind of glass: (chem.) a piece of matter which has assumed a definite geometrical form, with plane faces.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Of or like crystal; clear; limpid.
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The solid mathematical form assumed by many minerals.
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Transparent quartz; flint glass; a watch-glass.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Consisting of crystal, or like crystal. Rock crystal, transparent or colourless quartz.
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An inorganic body, which, by the operation of affinity, has assumed the form of a regular solid, terminated by a certain number of plane and smooth surfaces; glass of a superior composition and manufacture; anything clear as crystal.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A substance occurring in a definite geometrical form which is essentially constant for that substance, and which the latter always assumes when the conditions for its production are present.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Greek] A mineral body which, by the operation of affinity, has assumed a regular geometrical form a fine kind of glass; —any thing resembling crystal.
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Crystals are hard, pellucid, and naturally colourless bodies, of regularly angular figures; Crystal is also used for a fictitious body cast in the glasshouses, called also crystal glass, which is carried to a degree of perfection beyond the common glass; Crystals, in chymistry, express salts or other matters shot or congealed in manner of crystal.
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Consisting of crystal; bright, clear, transparent, lucid, pellucid.
By Thomas Sheridan
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