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Definition: Aplite |
ApliteNoun1. Light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Geological | A light-colored igneous rock with the same mineral composition as granite: quartz, plagioclase feldspar, and potassium feldspar, but with a fine-grained, almost sugary texture. (references) |
Mining | A light-colored igneous rock characterized by a fine-grained saccharoidal (i.e., aplitic) texture. Aplites may range in composition from granitic to gabbroic, but the term aplite with no modifier is generally understood to mean granitic aplite, consisting essentially of quartz, potassium feldspar, and acid plagioclase. The term, from a Greek word meaning simple, was in use before 1823. Syn:hapliteglass manufacture. (references) |
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Crosswords: Aplite |
| English words defined with "aplite": aplitic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "aplite": yukonite. (references) |
| 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. |
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aplite | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "aplite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 长英岩. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | apliteay | ||||
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Words beginning with "aplite": aplites. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "aplite": haplite. (additional references) | |
Words containing "aplite": haplites. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-p-t" | |
-1 letter: leapt, lepta, palet, petal, pieta, pilea, plait, plate, pleat, telia, tepal. | |
-2 letters: alit, ilea, late, lati, leap, lept, lipa, lipe, lite, pail, pale, pate, peal, peat, pelt, pial, pile, pita, plat, plea, plie, tael, tail, tale, tali, tape, teal, tela, tepa, tile. | |
-3 letters: ail, ait, ale, alp, alt, ape, apt, ate, eat, eta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-p-t" | |
+1 letter: aplites, fleapit, haplite, paliest, pantile, pileate, plaited, plaiter, platier, platies, plicate, taliped, talipes. | |
+2 letters: antipole, depilate, dipteral, epiblast, fleapits, haplites, interlap, lapidate, livetrap, oppilate, palatine, palliate, palliest, palmiest, paltrier, panelist, pantiled, pantiles, parietal, partible, particle, pastille, pearlite, penality, petaline, petaloid, petiolar, pieplant, pilaster, pileated, pilotage, pitiable, plainest, plaister, plaiters, platiest, playtime, pleating, plicated, poetical, prelatic, pretrial, reptilia, septical, spoliate, stapelia, tailpipe, talipeds, tapelike, tapeline, tieclasp, tinplate, tippable, traplike, trapline, tripedal, triplane. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 70 6C 69 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .--. .-.. .. - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110000 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A p l i t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0070 006C 0069 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358278758671 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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