crystalline
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Etymology edit
From Middle English cristallyn, cristallyne, from Old French cristallin, from Latin crystallinus, from Ancient Greek κρυστάλλινος (krustállinos), from κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “crystal”).
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Adjective edit
crystalline (comparative more crystalline, superlative most crystalline)
- Of, relating to, or composed of crystals.
- Synonym: crystal
- (chemistry) Having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure.
- Resembling crystal in being clear and transparent.
- 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iii:
- There the roſy-finger'd Spring, by the liquid mirror of a cryſtalline pool, was attiring her fair daughters in ſeven-fold ornaments, while the love-whiſpering breezes ſtole kiſſes as they paſſed, and fanned their glowing beauties.
- Pure.
- 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian[1]:
- not in his favoured midfield role, either but as a false No 9: the sort of role Guardiola only hands to his chosen, crystalline few: Mario Götze at Bayern Munich (less successfully), Lionel Messi at Barcelona (a little more so).
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- anticrystalline
- cryptocrystalline
- crystalline arthritis
- crystalline humor
- crystalline humour
- crystalline lens
- heterocrystalline
- holocrystalline
- hypocrystalline
- intercrystalline
- intracrystalline
- isocrystalline
- macrocrystalline
- magnetocrystalline
- mesocrystalline
- microcrystalline
- monocrystalline
- multicrystalline
- nanocrystalline
- neurocrystalline
- noncrystalline
- oligocrystalline
- paracrystalline
- pericrystalline
- phanerocrystalline
- polycrystalline
- procrystalline
- pseudocrystalline
- quasicrystalline
- semicrystalline
- spherocrystalline
- subcrystalline
Translations edit
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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Noun edit
crystalline (plural crystallines)
- (obsolete) Any crystalline substance.
- (obsolete) aniline
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Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /krysˈtal.li.ne/, [krʏs̠ˈt̪älːʲɪnɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /krisˈtal.li.ne/, [krisˈt̪älːine]
Adjective edit
crystalline