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Definition: FELDSPATH |
FELDSPATHNoun1. A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish. |
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Chemistry | Any of a group of usu. white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish minerals that are closely related in crystalline form, that are all aluminum silicates with potassium, sodium, calcium, or barium. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: FELDSPATH |
| Non-English Usage: "FELDSPATH" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (feldspar, felspar). |
| 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 |
feldspath | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "FELDSPATH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | feldspat (feldspar). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | veldspaat (feldspar, felspar). (various references) | ||||
French | feldspath (feldspar, felspar). (various references) | ||||
German | Feldspat (feldspar, felspar). (various references) | ||||
Italian | feldspati (feldspar). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eldspathfay | ||||
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Words beginning with "FELDSPATH": feldspathic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-h-l-p-s-t" | |
-2 letters: daleths, flashed, heptads, plashed, shafted, spathed, stapled. | |
-3 letters: adepts, alephs, daleth, deaths, defats, delfts, deltas, depths, desalt, fashed, fasted, festal, hafted, halest, halted, haslet, hasped, hasted, heptad, lapsed, lashed, lasted, lathed, lathes, padles, palest, palets, pashed, pasted, pastel, pedals, petals, phased, plated, plates, pleads, pleats, salted, septal, shaled, shaped, shelta, slated, spathe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-h-l-p-s-t" | |
+2 letters: feldspathic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 45 4C 44 53 50 41 54 48 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .-.. -.. ... .--. .- - .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000101 01001100 01000100 01010011 01010000 01000001 01010100 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F E L D S P A T H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0045 004C 0044 0053 0050 0041 0054 0048 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)403946385350355442 |
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