crystalline

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪst.əl.aɪn/

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.

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
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• 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)
• Latvian: kristālisks m, kristāliska f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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)
• Tagalog: bubugin

having a regular molecular structure

• German: kristallin (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: بلورین (fa) (bolurin), بلوری (fa) (boluri)

resembling crystal in being clear and transparent

• Albanian: kristalin
• Catalan: cristal·lí
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 粼粼 (zh) (línlín)

• Finnish: kristallinkirkas
• French: cristallin (fr) m
• German: kristallklar (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: berhablur, habluran, berkristal, kristalin
• Persian: بلورین (fa) (bolurin)
• Polish: krystaliczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: cristalino (pt)
• Russian: криста́льно чи́стый (kristálʹno čístyj)
• Spanish: cristalino (es)

Noun

crystalline (plural crystallines)

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

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) crystalline

1. vocative masculine singular of crystallinus