quartz : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a stamp mill for stamping quartz
  quartz battery.
  

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• 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
  

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• noun colorless glass made of almost pure silica
  crystal; lechatelierite; quartz; vitreous silica.
  

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• noun a mercury-vapor lamp that is enclosed in a quartz container instead of a glass container
  

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• noun a stamp mill for stamping quartz
  quartz battery.
  

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• noun an oscillator that produces electrical oscillations at a frequency determined by the physical characteristics of a piezoelectric quartz crystal
  crystal oscillator.
  

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• noun a translucent rose-red variety of quartz used for ornaments
  

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• (Min.), a variety of quartz which is rose-red.

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• noun a smoky yellow or brown quartz
  cairngorm.
  

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• (Min.), a variety of quartz crystal of a pale to dark smoky-brown color. See Quartz.

Webster 1913

• noun a clear quartz used in making electronic and optical equipment
  rock crystal.
  

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