quasicrystal
noun
quasicrystal is a noun meaning “any solid with conventional crystalline properties but exhibiting a point group symmetry inconsistent with translational periodicity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Q-U-A-S-I-C-R-Y-S-T-A-L, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of quasicrystal is quasicrystals.
What does quasicrystal mean?
noun
- 1
any solid with conventional crystalline properties but exhibiting a point group symmetry inconsistent with translational periodicity
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of quasicrystal
- quasicrystals plural
- quasi-crystal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is quasicrystal?
Quasicrystal appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does quasicrystal come from?
From quasi- + crystal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).