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Definition of Liquid crystal
1. Noun. A liquid exhibiting properties of a crystal that are not shown by ordinary liquids.
Definition of Liquid crystal
1. Noun. (context: chemistry physics) a phase of matter similar to a liquid, in which the molecules are arranged regularly in one or two dimensions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liquid Crystal
Literary usage of Liquid crystal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Making Things Better: Competing in Manufacturing (1993)
"Flat Panel liquid crystal Displays—Display is high on the list of technologies
likely to driven by HDTV—indeed by all forms of ATV. ..."
2. Theoretical Chemistry from the Standpoint of Avogadro's Rule & Thermodynamics by Walther Nernst (1904)
"influence of gravity or capillarity, ie we should have a liquid crystal.
Actually Reinitzer,i some years ago, observed a peculiar liquid, but cloudy, ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"... show not only one but two liquid crystal modifications and some which remain
in the crystalline state over more than a hundred degrees of temperature. ..."
4. Introduction to Physical Chemistry by James Walker (1907)
"The two chief triple points are here the points at which the solid crystal passes
into the liquid crystal, and where the liquid crystal passes into an ..."
5. The Small Business Innovation Research Program: The First Decade (1993)
"liquid crystal LCD's are those things, the small, portable things that people
carry around, the laptop computers and the like. The innovations that we have ..."
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