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Definition: Tremolite |
TremoliteNoun1. A white or pale green mineral (calcium magnesium silicate) of the amphibole group used as a form of asbestos. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tremolite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1835. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A monoclinic mineral, 2[Ca2 Mg5 Si8 O22 (OH) 2 ] ; amphibole group with magnesium replaced by iron, and silicon by aluminum toward actinolite; white to green; long-bladed or stout prismatic crystals; may show columnar, fibrous, or granular masses or compact aggregates; in low-grade metamorphic rocks such as dolomitic limestones and talc schists; the nephrite variety is the gemstone jade;the asbestiform variety is byssolite. CF:actinolite. (references) |
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Crosswords: Tremolite |
| Specialty definitions using "tremolite": hexagonite ♦ satelite ♦ tremolitic. (references) |
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Books | |
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| 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 |
tremolite | 12 |
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| Language | Translations for "tremolite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | trémolite. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | emolitetray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tremolite": tremolites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-m-o-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: emitter, motlier, mottler, omitter, retitle, termite, tortile, triolet. | |
-3 letters: elmier, emoter, etoile, letter, litter, loiter, melter, merlot, meteor, metier, mettle, milter, moiler, molter, motile, mottle, omelet, reemit, remelt, remote, retile, retime, telome, tilter, toiler, toilet. | |
-4 letters: elemi, elite, emote, lirot, liter, litre, lotte, merit, merle, meter, metre, metro, miler, miter, mitre, moire, morel. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-m-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: tremolites. | |
+2 letters: dilatometer. | |
+3 letters: biotelemetry, dilatometers, meteoritical, multitowered. | |
+4 letters: biotelemetric, dilatometries, meteorologist, overstimulate, temporalities. | |
+5 letters: biotelemetries, clitorectomies, electroosmotic, heterothallism, intervalometer, meteorologists, multielectrode, overstimulated, overstimulates, radiotelemetry, scintillometer, tatterdemalion, thermoelectric, trihalomethane, ultimogeniture. | |
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