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Definition: SYENITE |
SYENITENoun1. A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. Syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elaeolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elaeolite) syenite or leucite syenite. 2. Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite. |
Date "SYENITE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Syenite \Sy"e*nite\, noun. [Latin expression Syenites (sc. lapis), from Syene, Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | Hard igneous rock. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Syenite A granite so called from Syene, in Egypt, its great quarry. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A group of plutonic rocks containing alkali feldspar (usually orthoclase, microcline, or perthite), a small amount of plagioclase (less than in "monzonite"), one or more mafic minerals (esp. hornblende), and quartz, if present, only as an accessory; also, any rock in that group; the intrusive equivalent of "trachyte." With an increase in the quartz content, syenite grades into "granite." Its name is derived from Syene, Egypt. A.G. Werner in 1788 applied the name in its present meaning; the Egyptian rock is agranite containing much quartz. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
See also: list of minerals
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Crosswords: SYENITE |
| English words defined with "SYENITE": Sienite, Syenitic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SYENITE": augite syenite ♦ commercial granite ♦ eleolite syenite ♦ foyaite ♦ jadeolite ♦ larvikite, laurdalite, leopard rock ♦ monzonite ♦ orthoclasite ♦ potash syenite ♦ quartz syenite ♦ shonkinite, sillite. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SYENITE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (syenite). |
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Expressions using "SYENITE": Elaeolite syenite ♦ leucite syenite ♦ nephelite elaeolite syenite ♦ zircon syenite. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
nepheline syenite | 8 |
syenite | 4 |
nephaline syenite | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "SYENITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sienit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الصخر السواني بمصر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сиенит. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | syenit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | syeniet, sveniet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | syeniitti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | syenite, syénite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Syenit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συηνιτήσ λίθοσ, συηνίτης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szienit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sienite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 섬장". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yenitesay sienito, sienite. (various references) сиенит. (various references) kristalna stena. (various references) sienita. (various references) syenit. (various references) сі"ніт. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SYENITE": syenites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SYENITE" (pronounced 'Sy"e*nite'): Aconite, Alunite, Anthraconite, Antimonite, Aphanite, Aragonite, Arragonite, Axinite, Balanite, Basanite, Belemnite, Belonite, Bornite, Caledonite, Cancrinite, Colophonite, Conite, Crinite, Cyanite, Dambonite, Echinite, Encrinite, Eschynite, finite, Galenite, Geocronite, Glauconite, indefinite, kainite, Konite, Kyannite, leptynite, Liroconite, Lomonite, manganite, mannite, Maronite, Meionite, Melaconite, Melanite, Melenite, molybdenite, Munite, Necronite, Nontronite, Ornithichnite, Ornithoidichnite, Otoconite, Paragonite, Pentacrinite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: teensy, yentes. | |
-2 letters: inset, neist, nites, seine, sente, senti, stein, teens, teeny, tense, tines, tyees, tynes, yente, yetis. | |
-3 letters: eyen, eyes, eyne, nest, nets, nite, nits, seen, sene, sent, sine, site, snit, snye, stey, stye, syne, teen, tees, tens, ties, tine, tins, tiny, tyee, tyes, tyin, tyne, yens, yeti, yins. | |
-4 letters: ens, eye, ins. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: cysteine, serenity, syenites. | |
+2 letters: cysteines, extensity, eyepoints, eyestrain, intensely, necessity. | |
+3 letters: cysteamine, cytogenies, dysenteric, esuriently, eyestrains, eyestrings, eyewitness, generosity, metonymies, polytenies, sentiently, syncretise, syncretize, synergetic, synthesize, yeastiness. | |
+4 letters: amethystine, antipyreses, antisecrecy, cybernetics, cysteamines, cytokineses, dysenteries, erythrosine, essentially, esterifying, extensively, festinately, hypotensive, insensately, intensively, interlayers, intersystem, isobutylene, ostensively, persistency, persnickety, pestilently, presciently, pyroxenites, quiescently, resiliently, resynthesis, sedimentary, sensitively, serendipity, sovereignty, stenotypies, syncretised, syncretises, syncretized, syncretizes, synesthesia, synesthetic, synthesized, synthesizer, synthesizes, tensiometry, typesetting, yesternight. | |
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