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HUMITE

Definition: HUMITE

HUMITE

Noun

1. A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Humite \Hum"ite\, noun. [Named after Sir adjective. Hume.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definitions: HUMITE

DomainDefinitions

Mining

The mineral group alleghanyite, chondrodite, clinohumite, humite, jerrygibbsite, leucophoenicite, manganhumite, norbergite, ribbeite, and sonolite; monoclinic and orthorhombic fluosilicates of magnesium, iron, and/or manganese, with hydroxyl commonly replacing fluorine; similar physical properties, and structures closely related to those of the olivines; in metamorphosed dolomitic limestones, or skarns associated with ore deposits; commonly as chondrodite and clinohumite; at the Tilly Fosteriron mine near Brewster and at Franklin, NJ. (references)

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

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Crosswords: HUMITE

Specialty definitions using "HUMITE": humite group. (references)

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Anagrams: HUMITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-m-t-u"

-2 letters: emit, etui, item, meth, mite, mute, them, time.

-3 letters: emu, eth, hem, het, hie, him, hit, hue, hum, hut, met, mut, the, tie, tui.

-4 letters: eh, em, et, he, hi, hm, it, me, mi, mu, ti, uh, um, ut.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-m-t-u"
 

+2 letters: humpiest, mouthier, mushiest.

 

+3 letters: chummiest, euphemist, eurythmic, gemutlich, haulmiest, hematuria, homebuilt, humiliate, isthmuses, lunchtime, mouthiest, mouthlike, multihued, rheumatic, rheumatiz, rheumiest, ruthenium, smutchier, thrummier, triumphed, tunesmith.

 

+4 letters: amateurish, apothecium, bethumping, bigmouthed, enthusiasm, epithelium, euhemerist, euphemists, eurhythmic, eurythmics, eurythmies, exhumation, hematurias, humanities, humidities, humiliated, humiliates, humilities, imposthume, lunchtimes, mistouched, mistouches, mouthpiece, multiphase, murthering, promethium, punishment, rheumatics, rheumatism, rheumatoid, rutheniums, smutchiest, technetium, thimbleful, thrummiest, tunesmiths, unemphatic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HUMITE


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

48 55 4D 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)

01001000 01010101 01001101 01001001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#85 &#77 &#73 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0055 004D 0049 0054 0045

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

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

425547435439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography 		5. Bibliography


  

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