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vitreous
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vitreous \Vit"re*ous\, a. [L. vitreous, from vitrum glass; perhaps akin to videre to see (see Vision). Cf. Varnish.]
Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.
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Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity.
Vitreous body (Anat.), the vitreous humor. See the Note under Eye.
Vitreous electricity (Elec.), the kind of electricity excited by rubbing glass with certain substances, as silk; positive electricity; -- opposed to resinous, or negative, electricity.
Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See the Note under Eye.
Vitreous sponge (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of siliceous sponges having, often fibrous, glassy spicules which are normally six-rayed; a hexactinellid sponge. See Venus's basket, under Venus.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "glasslike," from Latin vitreus "of glass, glassy," from vitrum "glass," which perhaps was so called for its color (compare vitrium "woad"). Vitreous humor attested from 1660s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or resembling glass; glassy. 2 Of or relating to the vitreous humor of the eye. 3 (context of ceramics English) Having a shiny nonporous surface. 4 (context chemistry English) Of a semi-crystalline substance where the atoms exhibit short-range order, but without the long-range order of a crystal. 5 (context physics dated English) positive (of electric charge). n. (context by elision English) The vitreous humor.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye; "the vitreous chamber"
relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass; "vitreous rocks"; "vitreous silica"
(of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures" [syn: glassy, vitrified]
Wikipedia
Vitreous may refer to:
- Glass, an amorphous solid material
- Materials, such as minerals or ceramics, that have gone through vitrification
- Vitreous enamel, a coating on metal, glass or ceramic
- Vitreous lustre, a glassy luster or sheen on a mineral surface
- Vitreous body, a clear gel that fills the space between the lens and the retina in vertebrate eyes
- Vitreous membrane, a layer of collagen separating the vitreous body from the rest of the eye
Usage examples of "vitreous".
A tall man with an inflamed countenance and fierce, black eyes, that were somewhat vitreous, now leered down upon him.
There was a knife on the table, its blade made of a smoky, vitreous substance: olla, named after the flowers that grew over the raw olla beds.
He entered a perfectly circular room with vitreous walls and a high paraboloid dome.
The characteristic rock is a black vitreous trachyte resembling pitchstone, but anhydrous.
The dark walls were hung with astrological and anthropomantic charts and instruments of magic and shelved with crypti- cally labeled porcelain jars and also with vitreous flasks and glass pipes of the oddest shapes, some filled with colored fluids, but many gleamingly empty.
With needle and syringe, she collected body fluids for analysis: blood from the subclavian vein, vitreous fluid from the eye, urine through the lower abdominal wall.
She went into more details, knowing Monk shared a background in medicine: low platelet counts, rising bilirubin levels, edema, muscle tenderness with bouts of rigidity around the neck and shoulders, bone infarctions, hepatosplenomegaly, audible murmurs in the heartbeat, and strange calcification of distal extremities and vitreous humor of the eyes.
Teflon is used to line frying pans, but has also seen use in artificial organs: eustachian tubes, vitreous humors of the eye, veins and arteries, bladders, uteri, intestinal walls.
Light entering the eye passes through the cornea and aqueous humor, through the opening of the pupil, then through the lens and vitreous humor to the retina.
Brunies bring the high-wheeled carriage to a halt and distribute a handful from the brown bag to Tulla, myself, and the other children, on which occasion he never forgot to help himself as well, even if he hadn't quite finished the vitreous remnant in his mumbling elderly mouth.
If a man was a heroin and cocaine addict, his dead body displays the needle tracks, and the metabolites morphine and benzoylecgonine show up in urine, the vitreous fluid of the eye, and the blood.
A small creosote bush was undercut and it, too, disappeared into the vitreous umbra.
My eyes took a little time to grow accustomed to this absolute darkness for, though the delicate apparatus of cornea and aqueous humour and crystalline lens and vitreous body and optic nerve and retina had all been reversed when I gave birth to my mirror self through the mediation of the looking-glass, yet my sensibility remained as it had been.
Arandur is a rare natural metal found in igneous rock, usually as streaks of blue-green ore amid vitreous glass.
You could make vitreous drops shine according to lunar phase—.