vitreous

Senso (Inglese)

Adj

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

Noun

The vitreous humor.

Concetti

vitreo

vetroso

corpo vitreo

Opposto di

resinous

sinonimi

glassy

hyaline

glazed

vitrified

glass

transparent

open

transparence

transparency

vitriform

glass-like

deaphaneity

vitrescent

vitric

vitroclastic

glassy state

clarity

vitreous state

crystalloid

diaphaneity

expressionless

😑

glassiness

hyaloid

Traduzioni

vitreux

gläsern

vítreo

glasartig

vítreo

glasig

υαλώδης

glasachtig

Glaskörper

glazig

υάλινος

aus Glas

corps vitré

زجاجي

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈvɪ.tɹi.əs/

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Middle French vitreux, from Latin vitreus (“glassy, transparent”), from vitrum (“glass”).
The terms vitreous (positive) and resinous (negative) electricity were coined in 1733 by Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, who studied the different behaviour of glass and resin when rubbed with silk and fur, respectively.