microcrystalline

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   containing crystals that are visible only under a microscope

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Questions about microcrystalline

What does microcrystalline mean?

microcrystalline means "containing crystals that are visible only under a microscope".

How many syllables are in microcrystalline?

microcrystalline has 5 syllables and divides as mi-cro-cry-stal-line 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.

Is microcrystalline a common word?

microcrystalline is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.