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polycrystalline

adj

Etymology

From poly- + crystalline.

  1. derived from κρυστάλλινος
  2. derived from crystallinus
  3. derived from cristallin
  4. inherited from cristallyn
  5. prefixed as polycrystalline — “poly + crystalline”

Definitions

  1. Composed of an aggregate of very small crystals in random orientations

    • This was revealed only in the experiments of ion bombardment of single crystals, because a polycrystalline material, even though its microcrystallites have a regular structure, in fact behaves like a nonarranged, random system.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for polycrystalline. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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