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PRONUNCIATION OF MICROGRANITE

microgranite  [ˈmaɪkrəʊˌɡrænɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MICROGRANITE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Microgranite is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MICROGRANITE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of microgranite in the English dictionary

The definition of microgranite in the dictionary is an igneous rock with an identical composition and mineral content to granite, but having a finer texture.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MICROGRANITE


Banat
ˈbænɪt
bannet
ˈbænɪt
Bennett
ˈbɛnɪt
cabinet
ˈkæbɪnɪt
definite
ˈdɛfɪnɪt
exoplanet
ˈɛksəʊˌplænɪt
gannet
ˈɡænɪt
granite
ˈɡrænɪt
hornet
ˈhɔːnɪt
infinite
ˈɪnfɪnɪt
knit
nɪt
magnet
ˈmæɡnɪt
minute
ˈmɪnɪt
passionate
ˈpæʃənɪt
planet
ˈplænɪt
pomegranate
ˈpɒmɪˌɡrænɪt
protoplanet
ˌprəʊtəʊˈplænɪt
senate
ˈsɛnɪt
Thanet
ˈθænɪt
unit
ˈjuːnɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MICROGRANITE

microflorae
microfloral
microform
microfossil
microfungus
microgamete
microgametocyte
microgeneration
microglia
microgram
microgranitic
micrograph
micrographer
micrographic
micrographically
micrographics
micrography
microgravity
microgreens
microgroove

WORDS THAT END LIKE MICROGRANITE

allanite
Canaanite
colemanite
cyanite
kyanite
luxulianite
manganite
melanite
Michiganite
Midianite
morganite
sillimanite
suburbanite
tanzanite
titanite
torbanite
unite
urbanite
vesuvianite
vivianite
vulcanite

Synonyms and antonyms of microgranite in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «microgranite» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MICROGRANITE

Find out the translation of microgranite to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of microgranite from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «microgranite» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

microgranite
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

microgranite
570 millions of speakers

English

microgranite
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

microgranite
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

microgranite
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

microgranite
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

microgranitos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

microgranite
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

microgranite
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mikrogranit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Microgranit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

microgranite
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

microgranite
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Microgranite
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

microgranite
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

microgranite
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मायक्रोग्रॅनाइट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mikrogranit
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

microgranite
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

microgranite
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

microgranite
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

microgranite
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

microgranite
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

microgranite
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

microgranite
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

microgranite
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of microgranite

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MICROGRANITE»

The term «microgranite» is used very little and occupies the 168.691 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MICROGRANITE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «microgranite» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «microgranite» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about microgranite

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MICROGRANITE»

Discover the use of microgranite in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to microgranite and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
United States Congressional Serial Set
The three remaining thin sections, 452, 466, and 463, exhibit the highest development reached, and might be considered micaceous microgranite. The groundmass is composed of granitoid quartz and partially altered feldspar in grains about ...
‎1892
2
Congressional edition
Microgranite or graphic microgranite. — The micrograph ic facies of the central granite mass is present in rather large amount, but mostly as a constituent of the breccia. It makes up some part of the rock mapped as microgranite, but can not ...
United States. Congress, 1907
3
The Green Schists and Associated Granites and Porphyries of ...
Microgranite or graphic micntgranite. — The micrographic facies of the central granite mass is present in rather large amount, hut mostly as a constituent of the breccia. It makes up some part of the rock mapped as microgranite, hut can not well ...
Benjamin Kendall Emerson, Joseph Hartshorn Perry, 1907
4
Bulletin - United States Geological Survey
Microgranite (liparose); I'rom the quarry at tne northwest corner of the village, East Greenwich, R. I. J. H. Ferry, analyst. 9. Graphic microgranite (alsbachose); East Greenwich, R. I., from the spring locality south of Spencer Hill. (Seep. 60, U.S. ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1915
5
Bulletin
Microgranite or graphic mierogranite. — The micrographic facies of the central granite mass is present in rather large amount, but mostly as a constituent of the breccia. It makes up some part of the rock mapped as microgranite, but can not ...
‎1907
6
The Geology of England and Wales
Microgranite is most common in the northern part where the low-dipping marginal contacts and inliers of hornfelsed volcanic rocks suggest that the roof zone of the intrusion is exposed. Metasomatic recrystallization to quartz- white mica and ...
P. J. Brenchley, Peter Franklin Rawson, 2006
7
Industrial Minerals and Extractive Industry Geology: Based ...
16), intensely kaolinized metasediments and microgranite were exposed in the foundation trenches for overpass bridges (Bristow & Scott 1998). The Wheal Remfry hydrothermal breccia (Allman-Ward et al. 1982) is exposed on the west side of ...
P. W. Scott, Colin Malcolm Bristow, 2002
8
Geological Evolution of Antarctica
This is now superseded by a nine-sample suite including the original samples of the microgranite phase from Mount Chapman and five new analyses from Linck Nunatak itself (Fig. 2a). These yield a well defined errorchron (MSWD = 4.5).
Michael Robert Alexander Thomson, J. Alistair Crame, Janet W. Thomson, 1991
9
Mineral Deposits at the Beginning of the 21st Century
The Natural History Museum, London, UK ABSTRACT: The Upper Carboniferous porphyritic microgranite of Altenberg-Frauenstein forms a 36 km long and up to 18 km wide complex of ring dykes of the Teplice-Altenberg caldera in the ...
A. Piestrzynski, 2001
10
Issues in Geology and Mineralogy: 2011 Edition
“The late-Variscan peraluminous A-type Sn-bearing Li-mica granites of Altenberg and Zinnwald/Cinovec (Eastern Erzgebirge) intruded into the Teplice Rhyolite ( TR) and the Altenberg microgranite (AM), which forms the eastern branch of the ...
‎2012

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MICROGRANITE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term microgranite is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bad news Alex – the beating heart of curling is unionist. All hope is lost
... whose dense microgranite is commonly agreed to make the finest stones in the world. The small workshop produces about five £400 stones ... «The Guardian, Feb 14»
2
Ailsa Craig, golf landmark, produces Olympic curling stones
--First, it is the source of the distinctive strain of microgranite used to make most of the stones used in the Olympic sport of curling. In fact, all the ... «PGA.com, Feb 14»
3
Curling: You Will Become Addicted
Every curling stone used in the Curling World Championships and the Olympics is hewn from "distinctive, water-resistant microgranite" found in ... «Daily Beast, Feb 14»
4
13 Conversation Starters About the Winter Olympics
Specifically, they come from an uninhabited island called Ailsa Craig, where quarries provide the "distinctive, water-resistant microgranite" that ... «New York Magazine, Feb 14»
5
For Sale: Craggy Isle Where Olympic Rocks Are the Stars
... but for this: For a century and more, its quarries have been the source of the distinctive, water-resistant microgranite used to make most of the ... «New York Times, Nov 13»
6
Mantle Mining Corporation drills for gold/silver in Queensland
Field reconnaissance of this area has confirmed poor outcrop, but weathered exposures of microgranite and a coarse granite-biotite fragmental ... «Proactive Investors Australia, Sep 12»
7
Strategic Elements applies for entire goldfield, targeting gold …
Follow up in one part identified several drainages with microgranite float that assayed up to 0.99g/t gold, while a float sample of quartz veined ... «Proactive Investors Australia, Mar 12»
8
Kasbah Resources strikes 38 metres at 1.63% tin at Achmmach in …
... and siltstones intruded by multiple dykes of dolerite and microgranite – similar in nature to the geology of the Achmmach tin mineralisation. «Proactive Investors Australia, Jan 12»

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