granites
plural of granite
• Tangiers, Tasering, Tigranes, angriest, angrites, angstier, astringe, ganister, gantries, inert gas, ingrates, rangiest, reasting, stearing, tasering, tearings
Source: Wiktionary
Gran"ite, n. Etym: [It. granito granite, adj., grainy, p. p. of granire to make grainy, fr. L. granum grain; cf. F. granit. See Grain.] (Geol.)
Definition: A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefor in being destitute of a schistose structure.
Note: Varieties containing hornblende are common. See also the Note under Mica. Gneissoid granite, granite in which the mica has traces of a regular arrangement.
– Graphic granite, granite consisting of quartz and feldspar without mica, and having the quartz crystals so arranged in the transverse section like oriental characters.
– Porphyritic granite, granite containing feldspar in distinct crystals.
– Hornblende granite, or Syenitic granite, granite containing hornblende as well as mica, or, according to some authorities hornblende replacing the mica.
– Granite ware. (a) A kind of stoneware. (b) A Kind of ironware, coated with an enamel resembling granite.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 March 2025
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