vitreous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   made of, resembling, or having the qualities of glass

   The lava cooled into a dark vitreous rock with a glassy surface.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to the transparent gel that fills the eyeball behind the lens

   The injury caused blood to enter the vitreous chamber of the eye.

3. 3
   adj

   made hard, smooth, and nonporous by firing or fusion

   The kiln produced a dense vitreous ceramic that absorbed very little water.

Common collocations

• vitreous chamber Adjective + noun

From Middle French vitreux, from Latin vitreus ("of glass, glassy"), from vitrum ("glass"). The transparent body of the eye was called vitreous because its clear, gel-like substance was compared with glass.

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