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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crystalline
adjective
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■ NOUN
form
▪ The particular clays he has in mind do exist in many different crystalline forms.
▪ Quartz is a crystalline form of silica.
▪ Both crystalline forms are examples of molecular crystals.
▪ In section 3.2 we saw that compounds which exist in more than one crystalline form are said to exhibit polymorphism.
▪ A mineral is defined as any one of a number naturally occurring solid inorganic substances with a characteristic regularly ordered crystalline form.
▪ Different mineral types have different characteristics in addition to their crystalline form, which set them apart.
material
▪ There is some kind of popular superstition that crystalline materials are weak.
▪ Thermoluminescence is a property of crystalline materials, such as quartz and feldspars, which are found in pottery.
▪ When we come to everyday crystalline materials, however, there is one more link in the argument.
▪ The proportion of crystalline material in natural cellulose varies a good deal but may be about thirty or forty percent of the whole.
structure
▪ Literary texts are not some static crystalline structure in which we may glimpse a captured immobile past.
▪ The glass transition Glass, familiar for centuries, is a solid material showing no crystalline structure.
▪ Below: A graphical representation of: The crystalline structure of silica.
▪ The crystalline structure of each particle of dust is copied from the clay in the parent stream.
▪ The first attempts to explain the crystalline structure of a polymer sample produced a model called the fringe-micelle structure.
▪ But in the conodonts examined so far the crystalline structure within this layer is very variable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a crystalline blue pool
▪ a hormone in pure crystalline form
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For example, the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis has the ability to produce crystalline spores which act as natural insecticides.
▪ He possibly held that the universe was slightly ovoid, with a crystalline outer shell to which the stars were attached.
▪ Naturally occurring crystalline solids are called minerals.
▪ The crystalline post is controlled by special bond chemistry under controlled process conditions.
▪ The glass transition Glass, familiar for centuries, is a solid material showing no crystalline structure.
▪ The particular clays he has in mind do exist in many different crystalline forms.
▪ These are crystalline polymers with chain orientation virtually perfect in one direction.
▪ This imperfect distribution of cations is a disorder of the crystalline state.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crystalline

Crystalline \Crys"tal*line\ (kr?s"tal-l?n or -l?n; 277), a. [L. crystallinus, from Gr. ????: cf. F. cristallin. See Crystal.]

  1. Consisting, or made, of crystal.

    Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline.
    --Shak.

  2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.

    Their crystalline structure.
    --Whewell.

  3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.

  4. Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid. ``The crystalline sky.''
    --Milton.

    Crystalline heavens, or Crystalline spheres, 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.

    Crystalline lens (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.

Crystalline

Crystalline \Crys"tal*line\, n.

  1. A crystalline substance.

  2. See Aniline. [Obs.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crystalline

late 14c., from Old French cristalin "like crystal" (Modern French crystallin), from Latin crystallinus, from Greek krystallinos "of crystal," from krystallos (see crystal).

Wiktionary
crystalline

a. 1 of, relating to, or composed of crystals 2 (context chemistry English) having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure 3 resembling crystal in being clear and transparent n. 1 (context obsolete English) Any crystalline substance. 2 (context obsolete English) aniline

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WordNet
crystalline

  1. adj. consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals; "granite is crystalline" [ant: noncrystalline]

  2. distinctly or sharply outlined; "crystalline sharpness of outline"- John Buchan

  3. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent cristal" [syn: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent]

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Crystalline (song)

"Crystalline" is a song by Icelandic artist Björk, released as the lead single from her eighth album Biophilia. The song was released as a single on June 28, 2011 accompanied by an iPad app developed exclusively for the song. It was afterward released as part of The Crystalline Series alongside the second single from the album, " Cosmogony".

Usage examples of "crystalline".

By 1940 more than two dozen different crystalline compounds had been prepared from the adrenal cortex.

Absolute alcohol will then dissolve out the alkaloid, and leave it on evaporation in a crystalline form.

A crystalline alkaloid which is fatal to frogs in a dose of one centigramme, has been isolated from the common Stinging Nettle.

Canada it occurs with apatite in pyroxene rocks which are intrusive in Laurentian gneisses and crystalline limestones, the principal mining district being in Ottawa county in Quebec and near Burgess in Lanark county, Ontario.

This remarkable artefact consisted of an elemental chunk of bedrock, grey and crystalline, carved into a complex geometrical form of curves and angles, incised niches and external buttresses, surmounted at the centre by a stubby vertical prong.

The German oculist began by admitting that after the operation for cataract there was no chance of the disease returning, but that there was a considerable risk of the crystalline humour evaporating, and the patient being left in a state of total blindness.

The boxwood hedges and sweeping fir boughs were frosted with white, glittering with faint crystalline sparkles.

The ciliary muscle is generally thought to effect the change of form of the crystalline.

While the greater portion of the eyeball is concerned in the focusing of light, the crystalline lens, operated by the ciliary muscle, serves as the special instrument of accommodation.

Show how the iris, the crystalline lens, the retina, the ciliary muscle, and the cornea aid in seeing.

That crystalline mass must have reached its climacteric within the gravitational field of the star, and even a quiet star cannot withstand an assault of antimatter.

He had him cited before the Faculty of Medicine to be examined on his knowledge of the eye, and procured the insertion of a satiric article in the news on the new operation for replacing the crystalline humour, alluding to the wonderful artist then in Warsaw who could perform this operation as easily as a dentist could put in a false tooth.

CARBOLIC ACID is a crystalline substance resembling creasote in its properties.

I am sure the dewless, crystalline air never vibrated to strains of more solemn music.

To each created thing, the Ancient Sovereignty hath portioned out its own perfection, its particular virtue and special excellence, so that each in its degree may become a symbol denoting the sublimity of the true Educator of humankind, and that each, even as a crystalline mirror, may tell of the grace and splendour of the Sun of Truth.