vitreous

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

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