crystallography

[ kris-tl-og-ruh-fee ]

/ ˌkrɪs tlˈɒg rə fi /

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noun

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

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Origin of crystallography

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

OTHER WORDS FROM crystallography

crys·tal·log·ra·pher, noun

Words nearby crystallography

crystallize, crystallo-, crystallog., crystallographic, crystallographic axis, crystallography, crystalloid, Crystallose, crystalluria, crystal meth, crystal microphone

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How to use crystallography in a sentence

The CASP challenge crowd-sourced predictions of protein structures that have already been identified using X-ray crystallography, but were unavailable to the public.
DeepMind’s AlphaFold Is Close to Solving One of Biology’s Greatest Challenges|Shelly Fan|December 15, 2020|Singularity Hub
Until now, the only way to know a protein’s structure with near certainty was through a method known as X-ray crystallography.
Know when to fold ’em: How a company best known for playing games used A.I. to solve one of biology’s greatest mysteries|Jeremy Kahn|November 30, 2020|Fortune
The problem is, these predicted folding patterns were frequently wrong, failing to match the structures scientists found through X-ray crystallography.
Know when to fold ’em: How a company best known for playing games used A.I. to solve one of biology’s greatest mysteries|Jeremy Kahn|November 30, 2020|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.
In a major scientific breakthrough, A.I. predicts the exact shape of proteins|Jeremy Kahn|November 30, 2020|Fortune

AlphaFold 2 is “on par” with X-ray crystallography across more than two-thirds of the proteins in the CASP competition, Moult said.
In a major scientific breakthrough, A.I. predicts the exact shape of proteins|Jeremy Kahn|November 30, 2020|Fortune
This was especially exemplified in the case of the Abb Hay, whose work in crystallography was to mean so much.
Catholic Churchmen in Science|James J. Walsh
Now in crystallography there are only thirty-two possible classes of crystal lattice construction.
Highways in Hiding|George Oliver Smith
The study of the geometric forms assumed by minerals (crystallography) forms a department of the science of mineralogy.
Geology|James Geikie
On the strength of this, modern crystallography distinguishes six different systems of crystals.
The Wonders of Life|Ernst Haeckel
Needless to say crystallography is not confronted with problems of such a nature.
The Organism as a Whole|Jacques Loeb

British Dictionary definitions for crystallography

crystallography

/ (ˌkrɪstəˈlɒɡrəfɪ) /

noun

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

Derived forms of crystallography

crystallographer, nouncrystallographic (ˌkrɪstələʊˈɡræfɪk), adjectivecrystallographically, adverb

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