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Webster 1913 Edition
Crystalline
Crys′tal-line
(kr?s′tal-l?n or -l?n; 277)
, Adj.
1.
Consisting, or made, of crystal.
Mount, eagle, to my palace
crystalline
. Shakespeare
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 crystallized4.
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.
Definition 2024
crystalline
crystalline
English
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.
Derived terms
- crystalline lens
- pericrystalline
Translations
relating to crystals
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having a regular molecular structure
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resembling crystal in being clear and transparent
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Antonyms
Noun
crystalline (plural crystallines)
- (obsolete) Any crystalline substance.
- (obsolete) aniline