Wiktionary
n. A single crystal
Usage examples of "monocrystal".
The pilot beam was solid monocrystal steel, I-section, one decimeter wide.
The sun was beneath her feet as she stepped from naked monocrystal onto gray steel plates.
Its monocrystal rings girdling Eastman Nexus had been in place for ten months.
Complex was a large, elegantly pale building built of supertwisted monocrystal, on half an acre of land.
Complex, fashioned as it was of super-twisted sheet monocrystal, would be another matter entirely.
The cell was bisected by a monocrystal barrier, very like the one in the room of the Test.
The supporting girder of basket-woven monocrystal fibers swayed dangerously.
Wrist-thick hawsers of braided monocrystal held the ships together at bow and stern.
Walking away from her, he had held himself as though monocrystal rods connected his hips to his shoulders.
Soph and seven other members of the team hung aboard a narrow monocrystal hull with retrofitted drive pods.
Monocrystal materials, ultra-pure silica wafers and optical fibers, bearings and alloys close to the theoretical maxima, room-temperature superconductors, all are flowing in abundance from the plants built to sustain the orbital defenses.