crystallite

1. 1.

   any of numerous minute rudimentary crystalline bodies of unknown composition found in glassy igneous rock

   Broadercrystal

Other forms of crystallite

plural

crystallites·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crystallite

What does crystallite mean?

crystallite means "any of numerous minute rudimentary crystalline bodies of unknown composition found in glassy igneous rock".

How many syllables are in crystallite?

crystallite has 3 syllables and divides as cry-stal-lite under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.