quartz crystal
— Noun
– English
～ 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
quartz mill
— Noun
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～ a stamp mill for stamping quartz
quartz lamp
— Noun
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～ a mercury-vapor lamp that is enclosed in a quartz container instead of a glass container
quartz battery
— Noun
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～ a stamp mill for stamping quartz
quartz glass
— Noun
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～ colorless glass made of almost pure silica
quartz
— Noun
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～ colorless glass made of almost pure silica
quartz oscillator
— Noun
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～ an oscillator that produces electrical oscillations at a frequency determined by the physical characteristics of a piezoelectric quartz crystal
quartzite
— Noun
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～ hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals
quartzose
— Adjective
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～ relating to or made of quartz
quasar
— Noun
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～ a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts
quash
— Verb
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～ declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
quash
— Verb
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～ put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
quasi-NGO
— Noun
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～ a quasi nongovernmental organization; an organization that is financed by the government yet acts independently of the government
quasi contract
— Noun
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～ a contract created by law for reasons of justice without any expression of assent
quasi
— Adjective
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～ having some resemblance; "a quasi success"; "a quasi contract"
quasiparticle
— Noun
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～ a quantum of energy (in a crystal lattice or other system) that has position and momentum and can in some respects be regarded as a particle
quassia
— Noun
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～ handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark
Quassia amara
— Noun
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～ handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark
quassia
— Noun
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～ a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma
quassia family
— Noun
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～ chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit