Usually means: Mineral composed of silicon dioxide.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. quartz: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quartz: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quartz: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quartz: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quartz: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quartz, quartz: Wordnik
  7. quartz: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. quartz: Wiktionary
  9. quartz: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. quartz: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quartz: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. quartz: Dictionary.com
  13. quartz: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. quartz: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Quartz (British band), Quartz (band), Quartz (disambiguation), Quartz (electronics), Quartz (graphics layer), Quartz (magazine), Quartz (metal band), Quartz (publication), Quartz (publisher), Quartz (scheduler), Quartz (website), Quartz: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quartz: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quartz: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quartz: Rhymezone
  19. quartz, quartz (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. quartz: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. quartz: Free Dictionary
  22. quartz: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. quartz: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. quartz: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beading Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Quartz (mineral), quartz: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. Quartz (mineral), quartz: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Quartz: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Quartz: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  4. QUARTZ: The Mineral Gallery
  5. QUARTZ: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. quartz: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Quartz: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. quartz: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See quartzose as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (mineralogy) The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO₂. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Crystal meth: methamphetamine hydrochloride.

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