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Definition of Quartz crystal
1. Noun. A thin plate or small rod of quartz cut along certain lines and ground so that it can produce an electric signal at a constant frequency; used in crystal oscillators.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quartz Crystal
Literary usage of Quartz crystal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1871)
"Notes on a Merionethshire Gold quartz crystal, and some Stream Gold recently
found in the Hiver Mawddach. By TA BEAD WIN, FGS quartz near Bala Lake, ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1802)
"... are deposited a great profusion of geodes or nodules, containing within them
beautiful quartz crystal, with calcareous dog-tooth spar." p. 342. ART. ..."
3. Elementary Treatise on Physics, Experimental and Applied: For the Use of by Adolphe Ganot, E. Atkinson (1886)
"Take a thin section of a quartz crystal cut at right angles to its axis, and
place it between the polariser and the analyser with its plane at right angles ..."
4. Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied for the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1886)
"Take a thin section of a quartz crystal cut at right angles to its axis, and
place it between the polariser and the analyser with its plane at right angles ..."
5. Elementary Treatise on Physics: Experimental and Applied, for the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1877)
"The explanation of the phenomenon described in the last article is as follows :—When
a ray of polarised light passes along the axis of the quartz crystal, ..."
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