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OPACITE

Specialty Definition: OPACITE

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Mining

A general term applied to swarms of opaque, microscopic grains in rocks, esp. as rims that develop mainly on biotite and hornblende phenocrysts in volcanic rocks, apparently as a result of post-eruption oxidation and dehydration. Opacite is generally supposed to consist chiefly of magnetitedust. CF:ferrite. (references)

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

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Anagrams: OPACITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ectopia.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-o-p-t"

-1 letter: atopic, capote, opiate, poetic, toecap.

-2 letters: coapt, coati, epact, optic, patio, picot, pieta, topic.

-3 letters: atop, cape, capo, cate, ciao, cite, coat, cope, cote, epic, etic, iota, otic, pace, pact, pate, peat, pica, pice, pita, poet, tace, taco, tape, tepa, toea, tope, topi.

-4 letters: ace, act, ait, ape, apt, ate, cap, cat, cep, cop.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-o-p-t"
 

+1 letter: ectopias, operatic, poetical.

 

+2 letters: adipocyte, ametropic, apothecia, captioned, copacetic, copasetic, opacities, operatics, petticoat, poachiest, preatomic, precoital, proactive, scapolite.

 

+3 letters: adipocytes, amphoteric, antipoetic, antipolice, apodeictic, apologetic, apoplectic, aposematic, apostacies, apothecial, apothecium, caespitose, compatible, complicate, constipate, copulative, episcopate, epitomical, evaporitic, explicator, importance, metaphoric, neoplastic, pathogenic, peculation, pentatonic, petticoats, phonematic, picketboat, pleonastic, poetically, pratincole, precaution, replicator, scapolites, speciation, theophanic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OPACITE


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

4F 50 41 43 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)

01001111 01010000 01000001 01000011 01001001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#80 &#65 &#67 &#73 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0050 0041 0043 0049 0054 0045

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

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

49503537435439

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2. Orthography
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