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POIKILOBLASTIC

Specialty Definition: POIKILOBLASTIC

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Mining

A. Said of a metamorphic texture in which small grains of one constituent lie within larger metacrysts. Modern usage favors this meaning. Syn:sieve texture b. Said of a metamorphic texture due to the development, during recrystallization, of a new mineral around numerous relicts of the original minerals, thus simulating the poikilitic texture of igneousrocks. CF:helicitic. (references)

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

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Crosswords: POIKILOBLASTIC

Specialty definitions using "POIKILOBLASTIC": crystal sandstone. (references)

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Anagrams: POIKILOBLASTIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-i-i-k-l-l-o-o-p-s-t"

-5 letters: apostolic, ballistic, bicipital, biosocial, blacklist, blacktops, bookstall, bootlicks, latosolic, pisolitic, political, politicks, politicos, stickball, stoopball.

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

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Alternative Orthography: POIKILOBLASTIC


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

50 4F 49 4B 49 4C 4F 42 4C 41 53 54 49 43

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)

01010000 01001111 01001001 01001011 01001001 01001100 01001111 01000010 01001100 01000001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#73 &#75 &#73 &#76 &#79 &#66 &#76 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0049 004B 0049 004C 004F 0042 004C 0041 0053 0054 0049 0043

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

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

5049434543464936463553544337

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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