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TETRADYMITE

Definition: TETRADYMITE

TETRADYMITE

Noun

1. A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Called also telluric bismuth.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Tetradymite \Tet*rad"y*mite\, noun. [from Greek expression tetra`dymos fourfold. So named from its occurrence in compound twin crystals, or fourlings.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: TETRADYMITE

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A. A trigonal mineral, Bi2 Te2 S ; forms foliated masses in auriferous veins, commonly with tellurobismuthite; a source of bismuth. Syn:telluric bismuth; bismuth telluride. b. The mineral group kawazulite, paraguanajuatite, skippenite,tellurantimony, tellurobismuthite, and tetradymite. (references)

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

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Crosswords: TETRADYMITE

English words defined with "TETRADYMITE": Telluric bismuth. (references)

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Modern Translations: TETRADYMITE

Language Translations for "TETRADYMITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

bornine (telluric bismuth). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etradymitetay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "TETRADYMITE"

Words rhyming with "TETRADYMITE" (pronounced 'Tet*rad"y*mite'): Ammite, Atacamite, Azymite, Benjamite, Bismite, Calamite, Catamite, Chromite, Dolomite, Domite, Dynamite, Eremite, gummite, Ichthyophthalmite, Itacolumite, Jeronymite, mite, Ophthalmite, osmite, Ottomite, Palmite, Pandermite, Pentremite, Podophthalmite, Protosomite, Psammite, samite, Sclerodermite, somite, stalagmite, termite, Thomite, tridymite, Zamite. (additional references)

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Anagrams: TETRADYMITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-m-r-t-t-t-y"

-3 letters: admitter, attrited, diameter, iterated, mattered, meditate, remitted, tattered, temerity, titrated, tittered, yattered.

-4 letters: ariette, attired, attrite, daytime, demerit, dietary, dimeter, emerita, emirate, emitted, emitter, iterate, mattery, meatier, mediate, merited, midyear, mitered, readmit, remated, retimed, tattier, teatime, termite, titrate, treated.

-5 letters: admire, aeried, airted, attire, dearie, derate, dieter, dreamt, dreamy, eatery, ideate, imaret, itemed, marted, matted, matter, meated, mediae, metate, metier, metred, mitred, myriad, ratite, ratted, reamed, redate, rediae, reedit, reemit, remade, remate, remedy, reteam, retied, retime, retted, tarted, tatted, tatter, tattie, teamed, teared, teated, termed, tetrad, tetter, tiered, tirade, titter, treaty, yatter, yttria.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TETRADYMITE


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

54 45 54 52 41 44 59 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)

01010100 01000101 01010100 01010010 01000001 01000100 01011001 01001101 01001001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#69 &#84 &#82 &#65 &#68 &#89 &#77 &#73 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0045 0054 0052 0041 0044 0059 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)

5439545235385947435439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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