quartz

1. 1.

   colorless glass made of almost pure silica

   Synonymsquartz glassvitreous silicalechatelieritecrystal

   Broadernatural glass
2. 2.

   a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities

   Broadermineral

   Narrowerquartz crystalrock crystalcairngormamethystchalcedonycitrinerose quartzsunstonetopaz

Other forms of quartz

plural

quartzes·

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 quartz

What does quartz mean?

quartz means "colorless glass made of almost pure silica". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quartz?

quartz has 1 syllable: quartz. In IPA it is /ˈkwɔɹts/.

What is another word for quartz?

Close synonyms include quartz glass, vitreous silica, lechatelierite, crystal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quartz a common word?

quartz is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.