crystal watch crystal watch glass | a protective cover that protects the face of a watch |
crystal | glassware made of quartz |
crystal | a crystalline element used as a component in various electronic devices |
crystal ball | a glass or crystal globe used in crystal gazing by fortunetellers |
crystal counter | a counter tube in which an ionizing event increases conductivity |
crystal detector | a detector consisting of a fine wire in contact with a galena crystal, acts as a rectifier |
crystal microphone | a microphone in which sound waves vibrate a piezoelectric crystal that generates a varying voltage |
crystal oscillator quartz oscillator | an oscillator that produces electrical oscillations at a frequency determined by the physical characteristics of a piezoelectric quartz crystal |
crystal pickup | a cartridge in which an output voltage is produced by the vibration of a piezoelectric crystal |
crystal set | an early radio receiver using a crystal detector |
diode semiconductor diode junction rectifier crystal rectifier | a semiconductor that consists of a p-n junction |
liquid crystal display LCD | a digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field, used for portable computer displays and watches etc. |
methyldopa alpha methyl dopa Aldomet | antihypertensive drug (trade name Aldomet) used in the treatment of high blood pressure |
piezoelectric crystal | a crystal that can be used as a transducer |
quartz crystal | a thin plate or small rod of quartz cut along certain lines and ground so that it can produce an electric signal at a constant frequency, used in crystal oscillators |
violet reddish blue | a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum |
space lattice crystal lattice Bravais lattice | a -dimensional geometric arrangement of the atoms or molecules or ions composing a crystal |
crystal gazing | staring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events |
crystal crystallization | a rock formed by the solidification of a substance, has regularly repeating internal structure, external plane faces |
shy person shrinking violet | someone who shrinks from familiarity with others |
ice crystal snow mist diamond dust poudrin ice needle frost snow frost mist | small crystals of ice |
damask violet Dame's violet sweet rocket Hesperis matronalis | long cultivated herb having flowers whose scent is more pronounced in the evening, naturalized throughout Europe to Siberia and into North America |
water violet Hottonia palustris | featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers |
Labrador tea crystal tea Ledum groenlandicum | evergreen shrub of eastern North America having white or creamy bell-shaped flowers and dark green hairy leaves used for tea during American Revolution |
Persian violet Exacum affine | perennial cultivated especially as a houseplant for its fragrant bluish to dark lavender flowers |
marsh gentian calathian violet Gentiana pneumonanthe | perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths |
Violaceae family Violaceae violet family | a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus |
violet | any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers |
American dog violet Viola conspersa | violet of eastern North America having pale violet to white flowers |
sweet white violet white violet woodland white violet Viola blanda | short-stemmed violet of eastern North America having fragrant purple-veined white flowers |
Canada violet tall white violet white violet Viola canadensis | tall North American perennial with heart-shaped leaves and white flowers with purple streaks |
dog violet heath violet Viola canina | Old World leafy-stemmed blue-flowered violet |
horned violet tufted pansy Viola cornuta | European viola with an unusually long corolla spur |
two-eyed violet heartsease Viola ocellata | violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet |
sweet violet garden violet English violet Viola odorata | European violet typically having purple to white flowers, widely naturalized |
bird's-foot violet pansy violet Johnny-jump-up wood violet Viola pedata | common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies |
downy yellow violet Viola pubescens | violet of eastern North America having softly pubescent leaves and stems and clear yellow flowers with brown-purple veins |
long-spurred violet Viola rostrata | violet of eastern North America having lilac-purple flowers with a long slender spur |
pale violet striped violet cream violet Viola striata | leafy-stemmed violet of eastern North America having large white or creamy flowers faintly marked with purple |
hedge violet wood violet Viola sylvatica Viola reichenbachiana | common European violet that grows in woods and hedgerows |
dogtooth violet dogtooth dog's-tooth violet | perennial woodland spring-flowering plant, widely cultivated |
white dogtooth violet white dog's-tooth violet blonde lilian Erythronium albidum | North American dogtooth having solitary white flowers with yellow centers and blue or pink exteriors |
violet wood sorrel Oxalis violacea | perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers |
violet suksdorfia Suksdorfia violaceae | slender delicate plant with wide roundish deeply lobed leaves and deep pink to violet funnel-shaped flowers, British Columbia to northern Oregon and west to Idaho and Montana |
African violet Saintpaulia ionantha | tropical African plant cultivated as a houseplant for its violet or white or pink flowers |
bush violet browallia | any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers |
violet-flowered petunia Petunia integrifolia | herb or small shrublet having solitary violet to roseed flowers |
methanol methyl alcohol wood alcohol wood spirit | a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol, used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol |
rock crystal transparent quartz | a clear quartz used in making electronic and optical equipment |
gentian violet crystal violet | a green crystal (violet in water) used as a dye or stain or bactericide or fungicide or anthelmintic or burn treatment |