What is "crystal ball"

n. 1 A globe of glass or crystal used to foretell the future. 2 (by extension, used mostly in the negative form) A way of seeing into the future.

n. a glass or crystal globe used in crystal gazing by fortunetellers

Crystal Ball is the sixth album by Styx, released in 1976.

This album marked the recording debut of new guitarist Tommy Shaw. The track " Mademoiselle" was Tommy Shaw's vocal debut and the album's Top-40 hit.

The album's title track would become a concert staple for the band, as it was performed on every subsequent Styx tour with which Shaw was involved.

"Shooz" was co-written by Shaw and James "J.Y." Young. The bluesy rocker had Shaw on slide guitar while Young contributed a Hendrix-like solo to the middle of the track after Shaw's slide solo.

"This Old Man" is a song that DeYoung wrote for his father and the impact his dad had on his life.

Debussy's classical piece "Clair De Lune" served as the intro to the album's closing track, "Ballerina." The version of "Clair De Lune" on Crystal Ball just had DeYoung on piano and changed the key from D flat to C as the next track ("Ballerina") started in C minor.

A crystal ball, also known as an orbuculum, is a crystal or glass ball and common fortune telling object. It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying in particular.

Crystal Ball is an unreleased studio album by Prince recorded throughout 1986. The album was planned to consist of 3 LPs and cover a broad range of musical styles.

A crystal ball is a scrying or fortune telling instrument.

Crystal ball may also refer to:

• Crystal Ball (detector), a hermetic particle detector
• Crystal Ball function, a probability density function
• Crystal Ball (G.I. Joe), a fictional villain in the G.I. Joe universe, member of Cobra
• Sabato's Crystal Ball, a web site analyzing and predicting national political races
• A form of Contact Juggling involving crystal ball manipulation.

The Crystal Ball was a hermetic particle detector used initially with the SPEAR particle accelerator at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center beginning in 1979. It was designed to detect neutral particles and was used to discover the ηc meson. Its central section was a spark chamber surrounded by a nearly-complete sphere of scintillating crystals ( NaI(Tl)), for which it was named. With the addition of endcaps of similar construction, the detector covered 98% of the solid angle around the interaction point.

After its decommissioning at SLAC, the detector was carried to DESY, where it was used for b-physics experiments.

In 1996, it was moved to the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where it was used in a series of pion- and kaon-induced experiments on the proton. Currently it is located at Mainz Microtron facility, where it is being used by the A2 Collaboration for a diverse program of measurements using energy tagged Bremsstrahlung photons.

"Crystal Ball" is a song performed and composed by English rock band Keane, and featured on their second studio album, Under the Iron Sea. The song was released on 21 August 2006 as the third single from the United Kingdom album version (see 2006 in British music). "Crystal Ball" was also released on 18 August 2006 in the Netherlands and peaked at #20 in both the Dutch Singles Chart and the UK Singles Chart.

"Crystal Ball" is the title track and second single released from Styx's Crystal Ball album. It was written by guitarist Tommy Shaw who had just recently joined the band.

Crystal Ball contains the twentieth and twenty-first studio albums by American recording artist Prince. It was released on March 21, 1998 by NPG Records. The album contains Crystal Ball, the twentieth studio album by Prince, which is a three disc set of "previously bootlegged" material, together with a fourth disc containing an album of 12 new acoustic songs titled The Truth, the twenty-first studio album by Prince.

The box set was initially only available through direct orders by phone (1-800-NEW-FUNK) and Internet. The direct order edition included a fifth disc: an instrumental studio album by The NPG Orchestra titled Kamasutra. Shipment of this edition started on January 29, 1998, approximately two months before its official release.

Crystal Ball is the second triple album in succession following Emancipation. Each of the album's three CDs contains 10 tracks and lasts almost exactly 50 minutes, mirroring Emancipations 12-song, 60-minute disc lengths.

Prince once planned to release a 3- LP album around 1986, also called Crystal Ball. That album was edited down to a 2-LP and renamed Sign o' the Times. Eleven years later its title track became the title track for this album.