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quartz

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English

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quartz

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Etymology

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FromGermanQuarz, fromMiddle High German (Central East German)quarz,twarc, from aWest Slavic language [comparePolishtwardy(“hard”),Czechtvrdý(“hard”)], fromProto-Slavic*tvьrdъ.

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /k(w)ɔːts/
(General American)IPA^(key): /k(w)ɔɹts/
Audio(US): (file)
Rhymes:-ɔːts,-ɔɹts
Homophone:courts(some accents)
Homophone:quarts

Noun

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quartz (countable anduncountable,pluralquartzes)

(mineralogy) The most abundantmineral on the earth's surface, of chemical compositionsilicon dioxide,SiO₂. It occurs in a variety of forms, bothcrystalline andamorphous. Found in every environment.
- 1883,George Downing Liveing,James Dewar, “On the Ultra-Violet Spectra of the Elements”, inPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume174, Barrison and Sons, part I,page188:
  The telescope and collimator have each an object-glass consisting of a single lens ofquartz 1½ inch diameter and a focal length of 18½ inches for the sodium yellow light, but not more than 16 inches for the highest rays measured.
- 1892 April, Armiger Barczinsky, “The Golden Snail”, in Sylvanus Urban (pseudonym ofEdward Cave), editor,The Gentleman's Magazine, volume272,page331:
  Subsequently, the old Malay brought him the present specimen in a state of torpidity, telling him he had found it in a cavity of thequartz reef.
- 1948,Theodore Roethke, “The Shape of the Fire”, inThe Lost Son and Other Poems, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday & Company,→OCLC; republished inThe Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London:Faber and Faber […],1968,→OCLC,page62:
  My meat eats me. Who waits at the gate? / Mother ofquartz, your words writhe into my ear. / Renew the light, lewd whisper.
(uncountable, slang)Crystal meth:methamphetamine hydrochloride.

→ Malay:kuarza

Translations

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mineral

Afrikaans:kwarts
Arabic:مَرْو m(marw),كَوَارْتْز m(kawārtz)
Armenian:կվարց (hy)(kvarcʻ)
Belarusian:кварц m(kvarc)
Bulgarian:кварц (bg) m(kvarc)
Catalan:quars m
Central Sierra Miwok:hós·ok·iliwa-
Chinese:
Mandarin:水晶 (zh)(shuǐjīng)(gem),石英 (zh)(shíyīng)(mineral)
Czech:křemen (cs) m
Danish:kvarts (da) c
Dutch:kwarts (nl) n
Esperanto:kvarco
Estonian:kvarts
Faroese:kvarts n
Finnish:kvartsi (fi),ukonkivi (fi)
French:quartz (fr) m,cristal de roche (fr) m
Galician:seixo m,souxo m,cuarzo (gl) m
Georgian:კვარცი(ḳvarci)
German:Quarz (de) m
Greek:χαλαζίας (el) m(chalazías)
Hebrew:קְוָרץ (he)
Hindi:स्फटिक (hi) m(sphaṭik),बिल्लौर (hi)(billaur)
Hungarian:kvarc (hu)
Icelandic:kvars (is) m
Indonesian:kuarsa (id)
Irish:grianchloch f
Italian:quarzo (it) m
Japanese:水晶 (ja)(すいしょう, suishō)(gem),石英 (ja)(せきえい, sekiei)(mineral),クォーツ (ja)(kwōtsu)
Korean:석영(石英) (ko)(seogyeong)
Latvian:kvarcs m
Lithuanian:kvarcas m
Macedonian:кварц m(kvarc)
Malay:
Rumi:kuarza (ms)
Maori:takawai,kiripaka
Navajo:tsé áwózí,tséghádiʼńdínii
Northern Sami:kvárca
Polish:kwarc (pl) m
Portuguese:quartzo (pt) m,quarço (pt) m
Romanian:cuarț (ro) n
Russian:кварц (ru) m(kvarc)
Scottish Gaelic:èiteag f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:ква̏рц m
Roman:kvȁrc (sh) m
Slovak:kremeň (sk) m
Slovene:krêmen (sl) m
Spanish:cuarzo (es) m
Swahili:kwatsi,shondo
Swedish:kvarts (sv) c
Tagalog:kuwarso,kinyang
Thai:ควอตซ์(kwɔ́ɔts)
Turkish:kuvars (tr)
Ukrainian:кварц m(kvarc)
Vietnamese:thạch anh (vi) (石英)
Welsh:cwarts (cy) m,carreg wen f,creigrisial m
Yiddish:קיזל m(kizl)

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