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Definition: Augite |
AugiteNoun1. Dark-green to black glassy mineral of the pyroxene group containing large amounts of aluminum and iron and magnesium. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Augite \Au"gite\ ([add]"j[imac]t), noun. [Latin expression augites, Greek a'ygi`ths, from a'ygh` brightness: compare to the French expression augite.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A monoclinic mineral, 8[(Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe,Al,Ti)(Si,Al)2 O6 ] ; pyroxene group; dark-green to black with prismatic cleavage; a common rock-forming mineral in igneous and metamorphic rocks. Syn:basaltine;fassaite; pyroxene. CF:pigeonite. (references) |
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Crosswords: Augite |
| English words defined with "augite": augitic ♦ Gtraystone ♦ Heteromerous ♦ Picrite, Porphyrite. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "augite": aegirine-augite, augite bronzite, augite diorite, augite syenite ♦ cascadite ♦ dark mineral ♦ epidiorite ♦ hacksaw structure, harrisite ♦ larvikite ♦ ophitic ♦ porphyrogranulitic ♦ shonkinite, shoshonite ♦ titanaugite. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Augite" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (augite). |
| 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 |
augite | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "augite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | augit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | augiet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | augite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Augit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυγίτης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | augite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 輝石 (pyroxene). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きせき (cornerstone, foundation stone, locus, marvel, miracle, pyroxene, roster of the dead, wagon tracks, wonder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | augiteay augite. (various references) augita. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "augite": augites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "augite" (pronounced 'Au"gite'): Fungite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-t-u" | |
-1 letter: tegua. | |
-2 letters: ague, etui, gait, gate, geta. | |
-3 letters: age, ait, ate, eat, eau, eta, gae, gat, get, gie, git, gut, tae, tag, tau, tea, teg, tie, tug, tui, uta. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, ai, at, et, it, ta, ti, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-t-u" | |
+1 letter: augites, fatigue, unitage. | |
+2 letters: agouties, bijugate, equating, fatigued, fatigues, figurate, fruitage, fumigate, gaudiest, gauziest, ligature, ligulate, multiage, sauteing, tegumina, umangite, unitages. | |
+3 letters: autogenic, ciguatera, cingulate, curtilage, educating, emulating, featuring, fruitages, fumigated, fumigates, fustigate, garniture, gauntries, glutamine, granulite, graticule, gratitude, haughtier, ligatured, ligatures, magnitude, multipage, mutagenic, naughtier, outeating, outgained, purgative, quaggiest, signature, sugariest, tautening, trialogue, umangites, unseating, uptearing. | |
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