Library / English Dictionary

CALCITE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("calcite" is a kind of...):

spar (any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable)

Meronyms (substance of "calcite"):

calcium carbonate (a salt found in nature as chalk or calcite or aragonite or limestone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calcite"):

alabaster; Mexican onyx; onyx marble; oriental alabaster (a hard compact kind of calcite)

chalk (a soft whitish calcite)

Iceland spar (a transparent calcite found in Iceland and used in polarizing microscopes)

Holonyms ("calcite" is a substance of...):

limestone (a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals)

Derivation:

calcitic (of or relating to or containing calcite)

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