ground glass

noun

: glass with a light-diffusing surface produced by etching or abrading

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The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk. Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025 What percentage of ground glass opacities are cancerous? Leah Groth, Health, 30 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1802, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of ground glass was in 1802

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“Ground glass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ground%20glass. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.

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