English-Thai Dictionary
crystalline
ADJ เหมือน ผลึก muean-pa-luek
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CRYSTALLINE
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.
CRYSTALLINE
CRYSTALLINE Crys "tal *line, n.
1. A crystalline substance.
2. See Aniline. [Obs. ]
New American Oxford Dictionary
crystalline
crys tal line |ˈkristl-in, -tl-ˌīn, -tl-ˌēn ˈkrɪstəˌlaɪn | ▶adjective having the structure and form of a crystal; composed of crystals: a crystalline rock. • literary very clear: he writes a crystalline prose. DERIVATIVES crys tal lin i ty |ˌkristlˈinitē |noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French cristallin, via Latin from Greek krustallinos, from krustallos (see crystal ).
crystalline lens
crys tal line lens ▶noun the transparent elastic structure behind the iris by which light is focused onto the retina of the eye.
crystalline sphere
crys tal line sphere ▶noun historical (in ancient and medieval astronomy ) a transparent sphere of the heavens postulated to lie between the fixed stars and the primum mobile and to account for the precession of the equinox and other motions.
Oxford Dictionary
crystalline
crystalline |ˈkrɪst (ə )lʌɪn | ▶adjective having the structure and form of a crystal; composed of crystals: a crystalline rock. • literary very clear: he writes a crystalline prose. DERIVATIVES crystallinity |-ˈlɪnɪti |noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French cristallin, via Latin from Greek krustallinos, from krustallos (see crystal ).
crystalline lens
crys ¦tal |line lens ▶noun the transparent elastic structure behind the iris by which light is focused on to the retina of the eye.
crystalline sphere
crys ¦tal |line sphere ▶noun historical (in ancient and medieval astronomy ) a transparent sphere of the heavens postulated to lie between the fixed stars and the primum mobile and to account for the precession of the equinox and other motions.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
crystalline
crys tal line /krɪ́st (ə )lən |-əlàɪn /形容詞 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗1 ｟文 ｠(水晶 ガラスのように )透明な, 澄みきった .2 〘化 〙結晶体から成る, 水晶 (質 )の ; 結晶構造の .～̀ l é ns 〖the ～〗〘解剖 〙(眼球の )水晶体 .
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