crystallography

[ kris-tl-og-ruh-fee ]

noun

1. the science dealing with crystallization and the forms and structure of crystals.

crystallography

/ ˌkrɪstəˈlɒɡrəfɪ; ˌkrɪstələʊˈɡræfɪk /

noun

1. the science concerned with the formation, properties, and structure of crystals

Derived Forms

• crystallographic, adjective
• ˌcrystalˈlographer, noun
• ˌcrystalloˈgraphically, adverb

Other Words From

• crystal·logra·pher noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of crystallography¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; crystallo- + -graphy

Example Sentences

The CASP challenge crowd-sourced predictions of protein structures that have already been identified using X-ray crystallography, but were unavailable to the public.

From Singularity Hub 

The problem is, these predicted folding patterns were frequently wrong, failing to match the structures scientists found through X-ray crystallography.

From Fortune

Until now, the only way to know a protein’s structure with near certainty was through a method known as X-ray crystallography.

From Fortune

It takes about a year and costs about $120,000 to obtain the structure of a single protein through X-ray crystallography, according to an estimate from the University of Toronto.

From Fortune

AlphaFold 2 is “on par” with X-ray crystallography across more than two-thirds of the proteins in the CASP competition, Moult said.

From Fortune

This was especially exemplified in the case of the Abb Hay, whose work in crystallography was to mean so much.

From Project Gutenberg

Now in crystallography there are only thirty-two possible classes of crystal lattice construction.

From Project Gutenberg

The study of the geometric forms assumed by minerals (crystallography) forms a department of the science of mineralogy.

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On the strength of this, modern crystallography distinguishes six different systems of crystals.

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Needless to say crystallography is not confronted with problems of such a nature.

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