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Definition: ALLANITE |
ALLANITENoun1. A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition. |
Note: Allanite \Al"lan*ite\, noun. [From T. Allan, who first distinguished it as species.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Mining | A monoclinic mineral, 2[(Ca,Y,Ce)2 (Fe,Al)3 O(OH)(Si2 O7 )(SiO4 )] ; epidote group; massive, pitchy, slightly radioactive, and metamict; a minor accessory in felsic igneous rocks and pegmatites. Formerly called orthite; cerine; bucklandite; treanorite.Syn:yttro-orthite. (references) |
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Crosswords: ALLANITE |
| English words defined with "ALLANITE": Cerin ♦ Orthite ♦ Wasite. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ALLANITE": bucklandite ♦ magnesium orthite ♦ xanthorthite. (references) |
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
allanite | 20 |
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| Language | Translations for "ALLANITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | αλλανίτησ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | allaniteay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ALLANITE": allanites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ALLANITE" (pronounced 'Al"lan*ite'): Abderite, Abietite, Accite, Aciculite, Aconite, Acquisite, Acrite, Adamite, Adiaphorite, Aerolite, Aerosiderite, Agalmatolite, Albertite, Albite, Allochroite, Alunite, Ambrite, Ammite, Ammonite, Ampelite, Analcite, Andalusite, Andesite, Anglesite, Anhydrite, Ankerite, Anorthite, Anorthosite, Antholite, Anthophyllite, Anthraconite, Anthropolite, Anthropomorphite, Anthropopathite, Anthropophagite, Antimonite, Apatite, Aphanite, Aphrite, Apophyllite, Apotactite, Appetite, Apposite, Aragonite, Archimandrite, Arenicolite, Areopagite, Argentite, Argillite, Arkite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: lanital. | |
-2 letters: entail, lanate, lentil, lienal, lineal, lintel, taenia, taille, telial, tenail, tineal. | |
-3 letters: alane, alant, alate, alien, aline, anile, antae, elain, elint, entia, ileal, inlet, lanai, laten, leant, liana, liane, natal, telia, tenia, tinea. | |
-4 letters: alae, alan, alit, anal, anil, anta, ante, anti, elan, etna, ilea, lain, lane, late, lati, leal, lean, lent. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: allanites, allegiant, tailplane. | |
+2 letters: allegation, cantillate, carnallite, inflatable, lateraling, relational, tailplanes, unilateral. | |
+3 letters: allantoides, allegations, alleviating, alleviation, alloantigen, antiliberal, appellation, cantillated, cantillates, carnallites, gallantries, gallivanted, hallucinate, implantable, inalterable, inalterably, inflatables, labiodental, lateralling, lineamental, matrilineal, patrilineal, perinatally, planetoidal, tetanically. | |
+4 letters: accidentally, agglutinable, alienability, alkalinities, alleviations, alliterating, alliteration, alloantigens, ambivalently, anticlerical, antiliberals, antiparallel, appellations, artilleryman, balletomania, biparentally, cancellation, cleanability, equationally, flagellating, flagellation, hallucinated, hallucinates, ideationally, interglacial, labiodentals, lateralizing, legalization, levitational, magnetically, palatialness, pedantically, planetesimal, reallocating, reallocation, relationally, semantically, tangentially, turbellarian, unalleviated, unilaterally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4C 4C 41 4E 49 54 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. .- -. .. - . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001100 01001100 01000001 01001110 01001001 01010100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A L L A N I T E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004C 004C 0041 004E 0049 0054 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3546463548435439 |
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