Word Meanings - CRYSTALLOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.

Related words: (words related to CRYSTALLOID)

• CRYSTALLIZATION
  The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• CRYSTALLIZE
  To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHER
  One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.
• CRYSTAL
  The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.
• CRYSTALLOMETRY
  The art of measuring crystals.
• CRYSTALLIZABLE
  Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.
• CRYSTALLURGY
  Crystallizaton.
• CRYSTALLITE
  A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
  1. The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation. 2. A discourse or treatise on crystallization.
• CRYSTALLOGENY
  The science which pertains to the production of crystals.
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC; CRYSTALLOGRAPHICAL
  Pertaining to crystallography. (more info) Etym:
• CRYSTALLOLOGY; CRISTALLOLOGY
  The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies.
• CRYSTALLINE
  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,
• CRYSTALLOGENIC; CRYSTALLOGENICAL
  Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction.
• CRYSTALLOMANCY
  Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.
• CRYSTALLOID
  Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.
• CRYSTALLIN
  See GOBULIN
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHICALLY
  In the manner of crystallography.
• HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• PHANEROCRYSTALLINE
  Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.
• HOLOCRYSTALLINE
  Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.
• SUBTRANSPARENT
  Not perfectly transparent.