Crystalline

• Crystalline Limestone

With Amber Lee Connors, Natalie Hoover, Amanda Lee, Angela Lorenzana. The protagonist finds himself mysteriously transported to Terra, a fantasy world empowered by magical crystals. Crystalline definition, of or like crystal; clear; transparent. One of over 3,500 exclusive Benjamin Moore colors. Most people chose this as the best definition of crystalline: Being, relating to, or co. See the dictionary meaning, pronunciation, and sentence examples.

adjective

• 1Having the structure and form of a crystal; composed of crystals.

  • ‘This crystalline structure is an orderly arrangement of ions known as a crystal lattice.’
  • ‘Changing the state of a substance with asymmetric bonds requires more energy than a crystalline structure would.’
  • ‘They consist of metals and nonmetals bound together in a crystalline or non-crystalline structure.’
  • ‘Quartz and gypsum are other familiar examples of crystalline structures.’
  • ‘This usually leads to a physical structure that is crystalline in nature.’
  • ‘Even if a perfect crystal is not formed, the internal crystalline structure can be shown.’
  • ‘Cristobalite is a crystalline form of silica that has a diamondlike structure.’
  • ‘Although most small molecule drugs come as crystalline powders, only one protein pharmaceutical, insulin, is formulated thus.’
  • ‘Silica exists in several crystalline forms, in a large number of colloidal forms, and as an amorphous solid.’
  • ‘As more of the chains are caused to line up in an ordered manner, the polymer becomes more crystalline.’
  • ‘Glass itself does not have a crystalline structure as minerals do.’
  • ‘Silicate minerals are classified primarily on the basis of their crystalline structure.’
  • ‘Crystal gems do not soak up water, because of their closely packed crystalline structure that does not permit water molecules to enter.’
  • ‘Haematite is iron oxide - a grey form of the mineral that has a larger crystalline structure than the more familiar red stuff, or rust.’
  • ‘Many substances - particularly those with crystalline structures - form differently when in low gravity.’
  • ‘Both are crystalline forms of sulfur, but their structures are slightly different.’
  • ‘A crystalline metal is composed of a lattice of positively charged ions.’
  • ‘Saccharin is a white, crystalline powder that can be as much as 500 times sweeter than sucrose.’
  • ‘When it precipitates in the gall bladder it forms crystalline solids called gallstones.’
  • ‘At higher elevations on these mountains, the parent material is acid crystalline rock.’

  1. 1.1literary Very clear.
     • ‘How much more fun law school would be if the prose were crystalline!’
     • ‘He credits this awesome landscape with inspiring many of the crystalline passages of prose that have illuminated his other books.’
     • ‘Very often, these images are transcendentally brilliant, particularly those shot in crystalline black and white.’
     • ‘Bach invokes these emotions within a structure so crystalline that we can't begin to fathom its perfection.’
     clear, transparent, limpid, crystal clear, crystalline, see-through

Origin

Middle English from Old French cristallin, via Latin from Greek krustallinos, from krustallos (see crystal).

Crystalline Limestone