Tektite

Definition: Tektite

Tektite

Noun

1. Thought to derive from meteorites.

Date "tektite" was first used: 1909. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Tektite

Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	Small glassy bodies containing no crystals, composed of at least 65 percent silicon dioxide, bearing no relation to the geological formations in which they occur, and believed to be of extraterrestrial origin. Tektites are found in certain large areas called strewn fields. They are named, as are minerals, with the suffix ite , as australite , found in Australia, billitonite, indochinite , and rizalite , found in Southeast Asia, bediasite from Texas, and moldavite from Bohemia and Moravia. (references)
Mining	Glass spheroid, often with aerodynamic shape, found in strewn fields and associated with impact craters; each cluster of tektites is named for its locality, such as moldavites and australites. A tektite has been shaped by flight through the atmosphere while chilling and ablating and melted bymeteorite impact. See also:water chrysolite. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Tektite

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Tektite

Tektites (from greek tektos, molten) are up to a few centimeter sized objects of glass, which are formed by the impact of large meteorites on earths surface.

The impact melts material from earths surface and catapults it up to several hundred kilometers away from the impact site. The molten material cools and solidifies to glass. Although a meteorite impact causes the formation, the precursor material of tektites is of terrestrial origin. The color of tektites is black or olive-green and their shapes varies from rounded to irregular.

Because of the formation process, locations where tektite can be found are often associated with impact craters.

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Crosswords: Tektite

Specialty definitions using "tektite": australite ♦ bediasite, billitonite ♦ indochinite ♦ moldavite ♦ rizalite ♦ strewn field. (references)

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Expression: Tektite

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "tektite": tektite-like.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tektite

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
tektite	16
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Modern Translations: Tektite

Language		Translations for "tektite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		ektitetay.(various references)

Russian		тектит. (various references)
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Ancestral Language Translations: Tektite

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	tektos. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Tektite

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tektite": tektites. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tektite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: becotite, tactite, tectite, tette, Tikitere. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tektite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-k-t-t-t"
	-3 letters: keet, kite, tike.
	-4 letters: eke, kit, tee, tet, tie, tit.
	-5 letters: et, it, ti.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-k-t-t-t"
	+1 letter: tektites.
	+4 letters: kitchenette, skitteriest, stockinette.
	+5 letters: interknitted, kitchenettes, stockinettes.
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