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. |
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 |
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 |
ice crystal snow mist diamond dust poudrin ice needle frost snow frost mist | small crystals of ice |
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 |
red trillium toadshade sessile trillium Trillium sessile | trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor |
sessile polyp | a relatively flat polyp |
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 |
quartz glass quartz vitreous silica lechatelierite crystal | colorless glass made of almost pure silica |
crystal | a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure |
liquid crystal | a liquid exhibiting properties of a crystal that are not shown by ordinary liquids |
sessile stalkles | attached directly by the base, not having an intervening stalk, sessile flowers, the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate |
sessile | permanently attached to a substrate, not free to move about, sessile marine animals and plants |
limpid lucid luculent pellucid crystal clear perspicuous | (of language) transparently clear, easily understandable, writes in a limpid style, lucid directions, a luculent oration- Robert Burton, pellucid prose, a crystal clear explanation, a perspicuous argument |
crystalline crystal clear limpid lucid pellucid transparent | transmitting light, able to be seen through with clarity, the cold crystalline water of melted snow, crystal clear skies, could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool, lucid air, a pellucid brook, transparent crystal |