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CRYSTALLINE
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
Etymology
Adjective
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.
Antonyms
• amorphous
Noun
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
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HYDRAULIC
(adjective) moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil); “hydraulic erosion”; “hydraulic brakes”
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