crystalline

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They are artificially reunited on the crystalline: a lens interposed between the light and the eye, and opposing the crystalline, which is a living lens, dissociates again these united rays, and shows us again the seven distinct colours of the atmosphere.

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  1. adjective Being, relating to, or composed of crystal or crystals.
  2. adjective Resembling crystal, as in transparency or distinctness of structure or outline.

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  • Being sharp, crystalline, and even in quality, it was a valuable by-product, finding a ready sale for building purposes, railway sand-boxes, and various industrial uses. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • The rock surrounding it was crystalline, and each small stone at the bottom was a rough-cut gem, and above it hung stalactites of glossy sardonyx. —  Question Quest
  • She had tablets in her helmet that would easily knock her out, but Rachel fought to keep chemical dependency to a minimum, sucking water and glucose instead while staring out at the crystalline waste Every so often she flipped on the macroscope, checking for missiles. —  Asimov'sSF,Feb2004
  • Her prose is taut, crystalline, the tone pitch-perfect, deadly humorous with an acutely-tuned sense of the absurd. —  Lahontan Valley News - Top Stories
  • Aqueous dispersions of pure DEPE undergo a gel to liquid-crystalline (L β→Lα) phase transition in the lamellar phase at about 37°C and in addition a lamellar liquid-crystalline to hexagonal-H —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. Middle English cristallin, from Old French, from Latin crystallinus, from Greek krustallinos, from krustallos, ice, crystal; see kreus- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =F. cristallin = Provencal cristallin = Spanish cristalino = Portuguese crystallino = Italian cristallino = Dutch kristallijn = Middle High German kristallīn, German krystallin (cf. Danish krystallinsk, German krystallinish; Swedish kristallisk), from Latin crystallĭnus, from Greek κρυστάλλινος, from κρύσταλλος, clear ice, crystal: see crystal.
 

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