different between amorphous vs hyaline

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (ámorphos, “without form, shapeless, deformed”) (itself from ?- (a-, “without”) + ????? (morph?, “form”) +? -ous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m??f?s/

Adjective

amorphous (comparative more amorphous, superlative most amorphous)

1. Lacking a definite form or clear shape.

   Synonyms: formless, shapeless; see also Thesaurus:amorphous

2. (by extension) Being without definite character or nature.
3. (by extension) Lacking organization or unity.
4. (physics) In the non-crystalline solid state of a typically crystalline solid.
5. (set theory, of a set) Infinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets.

Derived terms

• amorphism
• amorphously

Translations

Further reading

• amorphous solid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• hyalin

Etymology

Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ??????? (huálinos), from ????? (húalos, “glass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha??l?n/, /?ha??li?n/

Adjective

hyaline (comparative more hyaline, superlative most hyaline)

1. Glassy, transparent; amorphous.

Derived terms

• hyaline degeneration

Translations

Noun

hyaline (countable and uncountable, plural hyalines)

1. (poetic) Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
   • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Rhapsody of Life's Progress

     Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.

2. (zoology, anatomy) A clear translucent substance in tissues.
3. (biochemistry) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
   • 1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […]

     where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked

Latin

Adjective

hyaline

1. vocative masculine singular of hyalinus