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A
unknown · 78% connection
The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Albite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common cons…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Anisopoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Argillite
noun · 78% connection
Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Asterism
noun · 78% connection
An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as som…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Biotite
noun · 78% connection
Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Bonito
noun · 78% connection
any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Clay
noun · 78% connection
A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Element
noun · 78% connection
One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Foliation
noun · 78% connection
The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Glimmer
noun · 78% connection
Mica. See Mica.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Gneiss
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Gneissic
adjective · 78% connection
Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Granite
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It diff…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Granitic
adjective · 78% connection
Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Granitoid
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Hypogene
adjective · 78% connection
Formed or crystallized at depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
Intermediate
adjective · 78% connection
Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: resembling, gneiss, some, characteristics, applied.
