Vitreous
['vɪtrɪəs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass; 'vitreous rocks'; 'vitreous silica' .
(adj.) of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye; 'the vitreous chamber' .
布赖恩手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.
(a.) Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity.
埃里卡手打
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Glassy.
整理:莫顿
解釋/意思:
adj. glassy: pertaining to consisting of or like glass.—ns. Vitreos′ity Vit′reousness; Vitres′cence.—adj. Vitres′cent tending to become glass.—n. Vit′reum the vitreous humour of the eye.—adj. Vit′ric.—ns. Vit′rics glassy materials: the history of glass and its manufacture; Vitrifac′tion Vitrificā′tion act process or operation of vitrifying or converting into glass; Vitrifac′ture the manufacture of glass.—adjs. Vit′rifiable that may be vitrified or turned into glass; Vit′rified.—ns.pl. Vit′rified-forts -walls certain ancient Scottish French &c. forts or walls in which the silicious stone has been vitrified by fire whether by intention or accident is uncertain.—adj. Vit′riform having the form of glass.—v.t. Vit′rify to make into glass.—v.i. to become glass.—ns. Vitrī′na a genus of land molluscs forming a connecting-link between the slugs and true snails—the glass-snail; Vit′rine a show-case made of glass and used to protect delicate articles.
校對:玛克辛
例句/造句/用法:
- Would not matter solidifying after fusion form a glass, a vitreous, rather than a crystalline product? 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- A pot of green bottle-glass had been allowed to cool slowly with the result that it had a stony, rather than a vitreous stru cture. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- These blooms consist of particles of nearly pure iron cohering, but retaining still a quantity of slag or vitreous material, and other impurities, which slag, etc. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Dufay had recognized two sorts of electricity, obtained by rubbing a glass rod and a stick of resin, and had spoken of t hem as vitreous and resinous. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Our use of the terms retina, cornea, and vitreous humor may be traced to the translation of his work on optics. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In the _biscuit_ or _bisque_ form pottery is bibulous, the prepared glaze sinks into its pores and when burned forms a vitreous coating. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
校對:玛克辛