crystalline

crystalline

English

Etymology

From Middle English cristallyn, cristallyne, from Old French cristallin, from Latin crystallīnus (“like crystal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪst.əl.aɪn/

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Adjective

crystalline (comparative more crystalline, superlative most crystalline)

1. Of, relating to, or composed of crystals.
2. (chemistry) Having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure.
3. Resembling crystal in being clear and transparent.
4. Pure.
   • 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian‎:

     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).

Antonyms

• amorphous

Derived terms

• 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

relating to crystals

Albanian: kristalin Bulgarian: кристален (bg) (kristalen) Catalan: cristal·lí (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: krystalický (cs) Danish: krystallinsk Finnish: kiteinen French: cristallin (fr) m Galician: cristalino m German: kristallin (de), kristallinisch, kristallen (de), Kristall- (de) Greek: κρυσταλλικός (el) m (krystallikós) Hungarian: kristályos (hu) Irish: criostalach, criostalta Italian: cristallino (it) Japanese: 結晶性 (けっしょうせい, kesshousei) Latvian: kristālisks m, kristāliska f Malay: berhablur, habluran, berkristal, kristalin Norwegian: Bokmål: krystallinsk Nynorsk: krystallinsk Persian: بلورین‎ (fa) (bolurin) Polish: krystaliczny (pl) Portuguese: cristalino (pt) Russian: кристалли́ческий (ru) (kristallíčeskij), (cut-glass) хруста́льный (ru) (xrustálʹnyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: крѝсталнӣ Roman: krìstalnī (sh) Spanish: cristalino (es) Swedish: kristallin (sv), kristallinisk Tagalog: malakristal

having a regular molecular structure

German: kristallin (de) Persian: بلورین‎ (fa) (bolurin), بلوری‎ (fa) (boluri)

resembling crystal in being clear and transparent

Albanian: kristalin Catalan: cristal·lí (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 粼粼 (zh) (línlín) Finnish: kristallinkirkas (fi) French: cristallin (fr) m German: kristallklar (de) Malay: berhablur, habluran, berkristal, kristalin Persian: بلورین‎ (fa) (bolurin) Polish: krystaliczny (pl) m Portuguese: cristalino (pt) Russian: криста́льно чи́стый (kristálʹno čístyj) Spanish: cristalino (es) Tagalog: malakristal

Noun

crystalline (plural crystallines)

1. (obsolete) Any crystalline substance.
2. (obsolete) aniline

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /krysˈtal.li.ne/, [krʏs̠ˈt̪älːʲɪnɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /krisˈtal.li.ne/, [krisˈt̪älːine]

Adjective

crystalline

1. vocative masculine singular of crystallinus