vitreous
- Adjective. Of, or resembling glass; glassy.
- Adjective. Of, or relating to the vitreous humor of the eye.
- Adjective. (context, of ceramics) having a shiny nonporous surface.
- Adjective. (chemistry) Of a semi-crystalline substance where the atoms exhibit short-range order, but without the long-range order of a crystal.
- Adjective. (context, physics) positive (of electric charge).
- Noun. (context, by elision) The vitreous humor.
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