TRACHYTE

Definition: TRACHYTE

TRACHYTE

Noun

1. An igneous rock, usually light gray in color and breaking with a rough surface. It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "TRACHYTE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references)

Etymology: Trachyte \Tra"chyte\, noun. [Greek expression rough, rugged: cg. French trachyte.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: TRACHYTE

Domain	Definition
Chemistry	Hard igneous rock. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A group of fine-grained, generally porphyritic, extrusive rocks having alkali feldspar and minor mafic minerals (biotite, hornblende, or pyroxene) as the main components, and possibly a small amount of sodic plagioclase; also, any member of that group; the extrusive equivalent of syenite. Trachyte grades into latite as the alkali feldspar content decreases, and into rhyolite with an increase in quartz. Etymol: Greek trachys, rough, in reference to the fact that rocks of this group arecommonly rough to the touch. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Trachyte

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Trachyte is an igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture. Mineral assembly is usually, alkali feldspar and plagioclase (in a ratio > 1:4). Quartz is absent. Biotite, pyroxene and scarce olivine are common accessory minerals.

Crosswords: TRACHYTE

English words defined with "TRACHYTE": Domite ♦ Liparite ♦ Sanidine ♦ Trachytic, Trachytoid ♦ Volcanic rocks. (references)

Specialty definitions using "TRACHYTE": glassy feldspar, glassy feld-spar ♦ pantellerite ♦ rhyacolite ♦ trachyandesite, trachybasalt. (references)

Non-English Usage: "TRACHYTE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (trachyte).

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Usage Frequency: TRACHYTE

"TRACHYTE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TRACHYTE" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

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Expression: TRACHYTE

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "TRACHYTE": trachyte-basalt.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TRACHYTE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
trachyte	3
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Modern Translation: TRACHYTE

Language		Translations for "TRACHYTE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		trakit. (various references)

Arabic		‏التراكيت صخر بركاني. (various references)

Bulgarian		трахит. (various references)

Chinese		粗面岩. (various references)

Danish		trakyt. (various references)

Dutch		trachiet. (various references)

French		trachyte. (various references)

German		Trachyt. (various references)

Greek		τραχείτης. (various references)

Hungarian		trachit. (various references)

Italian		trachite. (various references)

Pig Latin		achytetray

Portuguese		traquite. (various references)

Russian		трахит. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trahit. (various references)

Spanish		traquita. (various references)
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Derivations: TRACHYTE

Derivations
	Words beginning with "TRACHYTE": trachytes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TRACHYTE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: chattery.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-r-t-t-y"
	-1 letter: cattery, chatter, ratchet, yachter.
	-2 letters: chatty, cherty, earthy, hatter, hearty, rachet, tetchy, threat, treaty, yatter.
	-3 letters: caret, carte, cater, catty, chare, chart, chary, cheat, chert, crate, earth, hater, hayer, heart, ratch, rathe, ratty, reach, react, recta, retch, rhyta, tacet, tache, tarty, tater, teach, teary, techy, tecta, tetra, theca, theta, trace, tract, treat, tythe.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-r-t-t-y"
	+1 letter: athrocyte, tetrarchy, trachytes.
	+2 letters: athrocytes.
	+3 letters: bathymetric, hyperstatic, tracheotomy, trenchantly.
	+4 letters: antihysteric, chrestomathy, hypothecator, methacrylate, theatrically, tracheophyte, tracheostomy.
	+5 letters: antihysterics, bathymetrical, hemacytometer, hyperactivity, hypothecators, intrathecally, methacrylates, oystercatcher, parasynthetic, phreatophytic, theatricality, theoretically, tracheophytes.
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