Pellucid vs Vitreous - What's the difference?
pellucid | vitreous | Related terms |
Allowing the passage of light; transparent.
* 1857 , , The Coral Island , ch. 16:
Easily understood; clear.
* 1999 , , Preface:
Of or resembling glass; glassy.
Of or relating to the vitreous humor of the eye.
(of ceramics) Having a shiny nonporous surface.
(chemistry) Of a semi-crystalline substance where the atoms exhibit short-range order, but without the long-range order of a crystal.
(physics, dated) Positive (of electric charge).
(by elision) The vitreous humor.
Pellucid is a related term of vitreous.
As adjectives the difference between pellucid and vitreous
is that pellucid is allowing the passage of light; transparent while vitreous is of or resembling glass; glassy.As a noun vitreous is
(by elision) the vitreous humor.pellucid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- . . . and the bright seaweeds and the brilliant corals shone in the depths of that pellucid water, as we rowed over it, like rare and precious gems.
- If I treat that grammar as pellucid , then I fail to call attention precisely to that sphere of language that establishes and disestablishes intelligibility, and that would be precisely to thwart my own project as I have described it to you here.