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Words related to crystal

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  • crystal ball

    If you say that someone, especially an expert, looks into a crystal ball, you mean that they are trying to predict the future. Crystal balls are traditionally used by fortune-tellers.

  • crystal detector

    a demodulator, used esp in microwave circuits and in early radio receivers, consisting of a thin metal wire in point contact with a semiconductor crystal

  • crystal gazing

    the act of staring into a crystal globe (crystal ball) supposedly in order to arouse visual perceptions of the future, etc

  • rotation-inversion axis

    an axis of a crystal such that rotating about the axis and then inverting the crystal brings the crystal back to its original position.

  • acceptor

    the person or organization on which a draft or bill of exchange is drawn after liability has been accepted, usually by signature

  • bragg scattering

    the diffraction phenomenon exhibited by a crystal bombarded with x-rays in such a way that each plane of the crystal lattice acts as a reflector (Bragg reflector)
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