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amorphous
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Unorganized or vague. A lack of structure. For example, the amorphous state of a spot on a rewritable optical disc means that the laser beam will not be reflected from it, which is in contrast to a crystalline state which will reflect light. See crystalline.
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Nina too seeks a cause, and locates it rather amorphously in "everybody" and "everything": "Nina blamed us, this family.
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