crystalline
(adjective) consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals; “granite is crystalline”
crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent
(adjective) 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 crystal”
crystalline
(adjective) distinctly or sharply outlined; “crystalline sharpness of outline”- John Buchan
Source: WordNet® 3.1
crystalline (comparative more crystalline, superlative most crystalline)
Of, relating to, or composed of crystals.
(chemistry) Having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure.
Resembling crystal in being clear and transparent.
• amorphous
crystalline (plural crystallines)
(obsolete) Any crystalline substance.
(obsolete) aniline
Source: Wiktionary
Crys"tal*line (krs"tal-ln or -ln; 277), a. Etym: [L. crystallinus, from Gr. 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 perfectlly 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 heavently 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.
Crys"tal*line, n.
1. A crystalline substance.
2. See Aniline. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
31 January 2025
(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
