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Crystalline vs Perspicuous - What's the difference?

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Crystalline is a related term of perspicuous.


As adjectives the difference between crystalline and perspicuous

is that crystalline is of, relating to, or composed of crystals while perspicuous is clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.

As a noun crystalline

is (obsolete) any crystalline substance.

crystalline

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or composed of crystals
  • (chemistry) having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure
  • resembling crystal in being clear and transparent
  • Antonyms

    * amorphous

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Any crystalline substance.
  • (obsolete) aniline
  • ----

    perspicuous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
  • * 1776 , , Book I, Chapter 4,
  • I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I am perspicuous;
  • (logic) Of a language or notation, such as that of formal propositional calculus: where the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.
  • (rare) Transparent; translucent.
  • Antonyms

    * imperspicuous

    Derived terms

    * perspicuously * perspicuousness

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