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crystal
noun
    1. Colourless transparent quartz.
      Form: rock crystal (also)
    2. A crystal ball.
    3a. A brilliant, highly transparent glass used for cut glass;
    3b. Cut-glass articles.
    4. A small piece of a solid that has a regular three-dimensional shape, and whose plane faces are arranged in a regular order and meet each other at specific angles.
    5. chem.
      Any solid substance consisting of a regularly repeating arrangement of atoms, ions or molecules.
    6. elec.
      A crystalline element, made of piezoelectric or semiconductor material, that functions as a transducer, oscillator, etc in an electronic device.
adj
    1. Belonging or relating to, or made of, crystal.
Idiom: crystal clear
    As clear or obvious as can be.
Etymology: 11c: from Latin crystallum, from Greek krystallos ice.



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