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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>CRYSTALS</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="crystallaser"> crystal laser,<DL COMPACT><DD> a laser that uses a ruby or other crystal usually of a cylindrical shape. </DL> <A NAME="crystallattice"> crystal lattice,<DL COMPACT><DD> the regular geometrical arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules of a crystal. </DL> <A NAME="crystalliferous"> crystalliferous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> bearing, containing, or yielding crystals. </DL> <A NAME="crystalligerous"> crystalligerous, adjective. =crystalliferous.</DL> <A NAME="crystalline"> crystalline, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. made of crystals; solidified in the form of crystals. Ex. Sugar, salt, snowflakes, and diamonds are crystalline. Some rocks are crystalline. <DD> 2. made of crystal. Ex. crystalline pendants hanging from the chandelier. <DD> 3. clear and transparent like crystal. Ex. A crystalline sheet of ice covered the pond. (Figurative.) Simple, crystalline, and concise, her prose flows along swiftly, creating scene and character with striking immediacy and assurance (Atlantic). <DD> 4. of or having to do with crystals and their formation. <DD>noun a light, soft dress material, similar to mousseline de soie. </DL> <A NAME="crystallineheaven"> crystalline heaven or sphere,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Astronomy.) a sphere in the Ptolemaic system, supposed to exist between the primum mobile outside and the firmament of the fixed stars inside, and to communicate motion to all within. </DL> <A NAME="crystallinelens"> crystalline lens,<DL COMPACT><DD> the lens of the eye. Ex. Immediately behind the iris is the crystalline lens, a somewhat plastic lens, the curvatures of whose surfaces can be changed by muscles around the edge in order to vary the focal length (Shortley and Williams). </DL> <A NAME="crystallinity"> crystallinity, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> crystalline quality or character. Ex. Varieties of color, clarity and crystallinity found in natural diamonds have been observed in the man-made diamonds (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="crystallise"> crystallise, intransitive verb, transitive verb, -lised, -lising.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) crystallize. </DL> <A NAME="crystallite"> crystallite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a tiny globule or prism in glassy, igneous rock that is the beginning of a crystal. <DD> 2. (Physics.) a submicroscopic geometrical arrangement of atoms that is the center of growth of a crystal. </DL> <A NAME="crystallitis"> crystallitis, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an inflammation of the crystalline lens of the eye. </DL> <A NAME="crystallizability"> crystallizability, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being crystallized; capability of forming crystals. Ex. Crystallizability is essential for a fiber-forming polymer (Michaela Leitner). </DL> <A NAME="crystallization"> crystallization, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act or process of crystallizing or quality or condition of being crystallized. Ex. the crystallization of water by freezing. <DD> 2. a crystallized substance or formation. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) the taking on of a real, concrete, or permanent form; realization. Ex. The meeting resulted in the crystallization of our plans. </DL> <A NAME="crystallize"> crystallize, verb, -lized, -lizing.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. 1. to form into crystals; solidify into crystals. Ex. Water crystallizes to form snow. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) to form into definite shape. Ex. After much thought his vague ideas crystallized into a clear plan. <DD>v.t. 1. to form into crystals; solidify into crystals. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) to give a definite form or shape to; realize. Ex. Someday our hopes will become crystallized. When the controversy was over, the thought of the church, crystallized by the mind of St. Augustine, was clearer than it had ever been before (Atlantic). <DD> 3. to coat with sugar. adj. crystallizable. noun crystallizer. </DL> <A NAME="crystallized"> crystallized, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> formed into crystals. </DL> <A NAME="crystallogenesis"> crystallogenesis, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the science or study of the origin or formation of crystals. </DL> <A NAME="crystallogenic"> crystallogenic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> forming crystals; producing crystallization. </DL> <A NAME="crystallogeny"> crystallogeny, noun. =crystallogenesis.</DL> <A NAME="crystallographer"> crystallographer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who studies crystallography. </DL> <A NAME="crystallographic"> crystallographic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with crystallography or crystals. Ex. The final assault saw a concerted British attack ... from the crystallographic department at Oxford (London Times). adv. crystallographically. </DL> <A NAME="crystallographical"> crystallographical, adjective. =crystallographic.</DL> <A NAME="crystallography"> crystallography, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the science that deals with the form, structure, and properties of crystals. Ex. Classical crystallography could suggest no explanation other than the possibility of some unknown long-range force between molecules (Scientific American). </DL> <A NAME="crystalloid"> crystalloid, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. like crystal. <DD>noun (Chemistry.) a substance (usually capable of crystallization) that, when dissolved in a liquid, forms a true solution and will diffuse readily through vegetable or animal membranes. </DL> <A NAME="crystalloidal"> crystalloidal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or of the nature of a crystalloid. </DL> <A NAME="crystalloluminescence"> crystalloluminescence, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the production of light, without a rise in temperature, occurring when a solution crystallizes. </DL> <A NAME="crystallomancy"> crystallomancy, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> divination by means of a crystal ball or other transparent body; crystal gazing. </DL> <A NAME="crystallometry"> crystallometry, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the measuring of the angles of crystals. </DL> <A NAME="crystalset"> crystal set,<DL COMPACT><DD> a radio receiver that uses a crystal detector instead of vacuum tubes to separate the signal from the carrier wave. </DL> <A NAME="crystalsystem"> crystal system,<DL COMPACT><DD> each of the six different general methods in which various minerals crystallize, constituting the six classes of crystalline forms. </DL> <A NAME="crystalviolet"> crystal violet, =gentian violet.</DL> <A NAME="crystalvision"> crystal vision,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. visual perception, as of distant happenings or of the future, supposed to be aroused by crystal gazing. <DD> 2. the image or images which seem to be perceived. </DL> <A NAME="cs"> cs.,<DL COMPACT><DD> case or cases. </DL> <A NAME="cs"> c.s.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. capital stock. <DD> 2. civil service. </DL> <A NAME="cs"> Cs (no period),<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. cesium (chemical element). <DD> 2. cirro-stratus. </DL> <A NAME="cs"> CS (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> a potent tear gas that causes temporary blindness, used especially in riot control. Ex. CS caused some severe irritation, and the average period of incapacity was from five to 15 minutes (London Times). </DL> <A NAME="cs"> C.S.,<DL COMPACT><DD> an abbreviation for the following: <DD> 1. capital stock. <DD> 2. chemical society. <DD> 3a. Christian Science. <DD> b. Christian Scientist. <DD> 4. civil service. <DD> 5. Keeper of the Seal (Latin, Ex. Custos Sigilli). </DL> <A NAME="cs"> C/S,<DL COMPACT><DD> cases. </DL> <A NAME="csa"> C.S.A.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. Confederate States Army. <DD> 2. Confederate States of America. </DL> <A NAME="csardas"> csardas, noun. =czardas.</DL> <A NAME="csc"> csc (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> cosecant. </DL> <A NAME="csc"> CSC (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Civil Service Commission. </DL> <A NAME="csc"> C.S.C.,<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) Conspicuous Service Cross. </DL> <A NAME="csch"> csch (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> hyperbolic cosecant. </DL> <A NAME="cse"> CSE (no periods) or C.S.E.,<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) Certificate of Secondary Education (awarded to secondary-school graduates, of lower value than the GCE or General Certificate of Education). </DL> <A NAME="csk"> csk.,<DL COMPACT><DD> cask. </DL> <A NAME="csm"> CSM (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. command and service module. Ex. "I would like to make sure that the LM [lunar module] is okay before we power down the CSM" (London Times). <DD> 2. corn, soya, milk. Ex. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed a food made of corn, soybeans and milk, called CSM (Science News). </DL> <A NAME="cso"> CSO (no periods) or C.S.O.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Chief Signal Officer. </DL> <A NAME="cst"> CST (no periods), C.S.T., or c.s.t.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Central Standard Time. </DL> <A NAME="ct"> ct.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. cent or cents. <DD> 2. certificate. </DL> <A NAME="ct"> Ct.,<DL COMPACT><DD> an abbreviation for the following: <DD> 1. Connecticut. Official abbr: Conn. <DD> 2. count. <DD> 3. county. <DD> 4. court. </DL> <A NAME="ct"> CT (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. cell therapy. <DD> 2. Central Time. <DD> 3. Connecticut (in postal Zip Code). </DL> <A NAME="ct"> C.T.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Central Time. </DL> <A NAME="ctc"> CTC (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Centralized Traffic Control. </DL> <A NAME="ctenocyst"> ctenocyst, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the vesicle, containing clear fluid and otoliths, that constitutes the organ of sense in the ctenophores. </DL> <A NAME="ctenodactyl"> ctenodactyl, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a hystricomorphic rodent of northern Africa, with small ears, a stumpy tail, and hind limbs that have a fringe of bristles on the inner toes; comb rat; gundi. </DL> <A NAME="ctenoid"> ctenoid, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Zoology.) having marginal projections resembling the teeth of a comb, as the teeth or scales of certain fishes do. </DL> <A HREF="ctenoide.dic">NEXT</A>