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Multi-word Results
| crystal ball |
a globe of glass or quartz crystal used by fortune-tellers to foretell events in the future. |
| crystal detector |
a simple radio receiver made of a semiconducting crystal touched by a fine wire. |
| crystal gazing |
the practice of studying and interpreting images of future events, supposed to appear in a ball of polished glass or crystal. |
| crystal pickup |
a phonograph pickup that used a piezoelectric crystal. |
| crystal set |
an early form of radio receiver that used a crystal detector. |
| crystalline lens |
a transparent, biconvex, lenslike body in the eye, between the iris and the vitreous humor, that focuses light on the retina. |
| liquid crystal display |
see "LCD." |
| quartz crystal |
in electronics, a thin plate or rod that is cut from quartz, ground, polished, and finished in such a way that it vibrates at a specific frequency. |
| rock crystal |
clear, esp. colorless, quartz. |
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