crystal

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From Old English cristal (clear ice/mineral), from Old French cristal, from Latin crystallum (crystal, ice), from Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krustallos), ice), from κρύος (kruos), frost), from the Proto-Indo-European *kru(s)- (hard, hard outer surface).

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Singular
crystal

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural crystals

crystal (countable and uncountable; plural crystals)

  1. (countable) A solid (mineral quartz or otherwise) composed of an array of atoms possessing long-range order and arranged in a pattern which is periodic in three dimensions.
  2. (countable) A piece of glimmering, shining mineral resembling ice or glass.
  3. (uncountable) A fine type of glassware, or the material used to make it.
  4. (uncountable, slang) crystal meth: methamphetamine hydrochloride.

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  • (array of atoms): grain

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  • crystal” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001