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ENSTATITE

Definition: ENSTATITE

ENSTATITE

Noun

1. A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Enstatite \En"sta*tite\, noun. [Named from Greek an adversary, because infusible before the blowpipe.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Specialty Definitions: ENSTATITE

DomainDefinitions

Mining

An orthorhombic mineral, 2[MgSiO3 ] ; pyroxene group; dimorphous with clinoenstatite; a common rock-forming mineral in basalt, gabbro, norite, pyroxenite, and peridotite. Formerly called amblystegite, bronzite, chladnite, ficinite, hypersthene (in part), orthobronzite, orthoenstatite, orthohypersthene (in part), paulite, peckhamite,protobasite, shepardite, and victorite. See also:pyroxene. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: ENSTATITE

English words defined with "ENSTATITE": BronziteEnstatiticSchiller spar. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ENSTATITE": agalite, augite bronziteensteniteschiller-fels. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ENSTATITE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

enstatite

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "ENSTATITE"

Words rhyming with "ENSTATITE" (pronounced 'En"sta*tite'): Abietite, Apatite, Apotactite, Appetite, Argentite, Azotite, Ballistite, Bipartite, Brochantite, Cervantite, Digitipartite, Encratite, Eulytite, Goniatite, haematite, hematite, Hepatite, Hittite, Marmatite, Martite, Micropegmatite, Mimetite, Multipartite, Orthoceratite, Partite, Pegmatite, Peridotite, Petite, Pluripartite, Quadripartite, Quinquepartite, Septempartite, Smectite, stalactite, tripartite, Tungstite, Zaratite. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ENSTATITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: intestate.

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-s-t-t-t"

-1 letter: anisette, nattiest, nettiest, steatite, tentiest, tetanies, tetanise.

-2 letters: etatist, etesian, instate, neatest, satinet, tatties, testate.

-3 letters: attent, attest, enates, estate, sateen, senate, sitten, taints, tanist, tattie, tenets, teniae, tenias, tentie, testae, tineas, tisane, titans.

-4 letters: anise, antes, antis, eaten, enate, entia, etnas, inset, nates, neats, neist, netts, nites, saint, satin, seine, sente, senti, setae.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-n-s-t-t-t"
 

+1 letter: interstate, intestates, patientest, tentatives.

 

+2 letters: anesthetist, detestation, dilettantes, interstates, potentiates, tattinesses.

 

+3 letters: anesthetists, detestations, misstatement, mistreatment, sustentative, transvestite.

 

+4 letters: antiliterates, antisatellite, attentiveness, authenticates, misstatements, mistreatments, reinstatement, retransmitted, tentativeness, transliterate, transvestites.

 

+5 letters: attractiveness, authenticities, entertainments, existentialist, interdigitates, overattentions, potentialities, reinstatements, sentimentalist, sentimentality, teleportations, transliterated, transliterates, watertightness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ENSTATITE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 4E 53 54 41 54 49 54 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -.    ...    -    .-    -    ..    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01001110 01010011 01010100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#78 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004E 0053 0054 0041 0054 0049 0054 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

394853543554435439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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