a hard mineral, often in crystal form, that is used to make very accurate clocks and watches 石英 The watch runs with a normal quartz movement. 这块手表以正常的石英机芯运转。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryQuartz is used before these nouns:- crystal
- watch
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from German Quarz, from Polish dialect kwardy, corresponding to Czech tvrdý ‘hard’.