vitreous

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or resembling glass; glassy.

   “Pressing his fingertips against the rippled, vitreous surface, he had the odd sensation that were he to apply sufficient pressure the glass would give way like a permeable membrane, and he would be able to pass right through it, but when he pushed harder, the surface remained cold and unyielding.”

2. sıfat Of or relating to the vitreous humor of the eye.
3. sıfat Having a shiny nonporous surface.
4. sıfat Of a semi-crystalline substance where the atoms exhibit short-range order, but without the long-range order of a crystal.
5. sıfat With a glass-like texture, often referring to volcanic rocks that cooled too quickly for crystals to form.
6. sıfat Positive (of electric charge).
7. isim The vitreous humor.