Crystal' : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Crystal'	by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crystal \Crys"tal\ (kr?s"tal), n. [OE. cristal, F. cristal, L. crystallum crystal, ice, fr. Gr. [?][?][?][?], fr. [?][?][?][?] icy cold, frost; cf. AS. crystalla, fr. L. crystallum; prob. akin to E. crust. See {Crust}, {Raw}.] 1. (Chem. & Min.) The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See {Crystallization}. 2. The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; -- called also {rock crystal}. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. {Smoky quartz}, {Pebble}; also {Brazilian pebble}, under {Brazilian}. 3. A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See {Flint glass}. 4. The glass over the dial of a watch case. 5. Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc. The blue crystal of the seas. --Byron. {Blood crystal}. See under {Blood}. {Compound crystal}. See under {Compound}. {Iceland crystal}, a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate, brought from Iceland, and used in certain optical instruments, as the polariscope. {Rock crystal}, [or] {Mountain crystal}, any transparent crystal of quartz, particularly of limpid or colorless quartz.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crystal \Crys"tal\, a. Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline. Through crystal walls each little mote will peep. --Shak. By crystal streams that murmur through the meads. --Dryden. The crystal pellets at the touch congeal, And from the ground rebounds the ratting hail. --H. Brooks.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Crystal, MI Zip code(s): 48818 Crystal, MN (city, FIPS 14158) Location: 45.03730 N, 93.35935 W Population (1990): 23788 (9541 housing units) Area: 14.9 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55428 Crystal, ND (city, FIPS 17060) Location: 48.59845 N, 97.66836 W Population (1990): 199 (96 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58222
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Crystal Concurrent Representation of Your Space-Time ALgorithms. A {recursion equation} parallel language. ["A Parallel Language and its Compilation to Multiprocessor Machines or VLSI", M.C. Chen, 13th POPL, ACM 1986 pp.131-139]. (1994-12-06)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Crystal (Ezek. 1:22, with the epithet "terrible," as dazzling the spectators with its brightness). The word occurs in Rev. 4:6; 21:11; 22:1. It is a stone of the flint order, the most refined kind of quartz. The Greek word here used means also literally "ice." The ancients regarded the crystal as only pure water congealed into extreme hardness by great length of time.