準じゅん結けっ晶しょう

noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

quasicrystal; paracrystal

Technical term in crystallography and materials science for a structure that is ordered but not periodic. 準結晶 is the standard Japanese term; paracrystal is a less common synonym.

• 準じゅん結けっ晶しょうは通つう常じょうの結けっ晶しょうとは異ことなる対たい称しょう性せいを持もつ。

  Quasicrystals have symmetries different from ordinary crystals.

• この合ごう金きんは準じゅん結けっ晶しょう構こう造ぞうを示しめす。

  This alloy exhibits a quasicrystalline structure.