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Meaning of "sapphirine" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SAPPHIRINE

sapphirine  [ˈsæfəˌriːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SAPPHIRINE

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sapphirine can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES SAPPHIRINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sapphirine

Sapphirine

Sapphirine is a rare mineral, a silicate of magnesium and aluminium with the chemical formula 86O20. Named for its sapphire-like colour, sapphirine is primarily of interest to researchers and collectors: well-formed crystals are treasured and occasionally cut into gemstones. Sapphirine has also been synthesized for experimental purposes via a hydrothermal process.

Definition of sapphirine in the English dictionary

The first definition of sapphirine in the dictionary is a rare blue or bluish-green mineral that consists of magnesium aluminium silicate in monoclinic crystalline form and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks. Other definition of sapphirine is a blue variety of spinel. Sapphirine is also relating to or resembling sapphire.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SAPPHIRINE


aegirine
ˈiːdʒɪˌriːn
alizarine
əˈlɪzəˌriːn
balzarine
ˈbælzəˌriːn
berberine
ˈbɜːbəˌriːn
buckminsterfullerene
ˌbʌkmɪnstəˈfʊləˌriːn
butterine
ˈbʌtəˌriːn
cadaverine
kəˈdævəˌriːn
cinnabarine
ˈsɪnəbəˌriːn
curarine
ˈkjʊərəˌriːn
fullerene
ˈfʊləˌriːn
Gadarene
ˈɡædəˌriːn
green
ɡriːn
gregarine
ˈɡrɛɡəˌriːn
nitroglycerine
ˌnaɪtrəʊˈɡlɪsəˌriːn
papaverine
pəˈpeɪvəˌriːn
pelerine
ˈpɛləˌriːn
polverine
ˈpɒlvəˌriːn
submarine
ˈsʌbməˌriːn
trinitroglycerine
traɪˌnaɪtrəʊˈɡlɪsəˌriːn
wolverine
ˈwʊlvəˌriːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SAPPHIRINE

sappan
sappanwood
sapped
sapper
sapperment
Sapphic
Sapphic ode
Sapphira
sapphire
sapphired
sapphism
sapphist
Sappho
sappier
sappiest
sappily
sappiness
sapping
sapple

WORDS THAT END LIKE SAPPHIRINE

aquamarine
brine
Catherine
chlorine
doctrine
endocrine
exocrine
figurine
Katharine
Katherine
margarine
murine
poitrine
serine
shrine
tangerine
trine
urine
uterine
vitrine

Synonyms and antonyms of sapphirine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sapphirine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SAPPHIRINE

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

Translator English - Chinese

蓝宝石
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

zafirina
570 millions of speakers

English

sapphirine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

sapphirine
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

sapphirine
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сапфирин
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sapphirine
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

sapphirine
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

saphirine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Safir
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sapphirin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

サファーリン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

sapphirine
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sapphirine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sapphirine
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீல் மாணிக்க கல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आच्छादन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sapphirine
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sapphirine
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sapphirine
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сапфірін
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sapphirine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ζαφειρένιες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sapphirine
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Safirine
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sapphirine
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sapphirine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SAPPHIRINE»

The term «sapphirine» is normally little used and occupies the 141.230 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SAPPHIRINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sapphirine» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sapphirine» 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 sapphirine

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAPPHIRINE»

Discover the use of sapphirine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sapphirine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Geodynamic Evolution of East Antarctica: A Key to the ...
Sapphirine is generally xenoblastic and less than 1 mm in diameter. Quartz is generally grano- blastic and ranges in grain size from several hundreds of micrometres to several millimetres. It sometimes occurs as elongated grains up to 1 cm in ...
M. Satish-Kumar, 2008
2
The Boundaries of the West African Craton
The compositions used for the phases are means of several punctual analyses, obtained by electron microprobe. In silica-deficient microdomains, this stage is marked by the development of sapphirine, orthopyro- xene and sillimanite around ...
Nasser Ennih, Jean-Paul Liégeois, 2008
3
Antarctic Earth Science
Garnet-Sapphirine-Sillimanite and Incompatibility of Ortho- pyroxene and Corundum Orthopyroxene is absent in the Schirmacher Hills sapphirine-garnet rocks, while corundum has not previously been reported in silica- undersaturated  ...
R. L. Oliver, P. R. James, J. B. Jago, 1983
4
Geological Survey Bulletin
Sapphirine-bearing assemblages of minerals observed in thin sections of rocks from the three localities are listed as follows: AMETHYST PROSPECT Sapphirine -amphibole-cordierite-zincian spinel Sapphirine-amphibole-cordierite ...
‎1981
5
Phase Diagrams for Geoscientists: An Atlas of the Earth's ...
At lower pressures is the assemblage orthopyroxene + spinel + cordierite (38), which is replaced at higher pressures with orthopyroxene + sapphirine + cordierite (39). The intersection of (28) and (38) corresponds to the reaction: cordierite + ...
Tibor Gasparik, 2003
6
Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences
The orthopy- roxene-sapphirine thermometer (Kawasaki and Sato 2002) indicated these granulites experienced the subsequent retrograde metamorphism at 824 °C and 1 010 °C,respectively. In this paper we present the experimental data on ...
Dieter K. Fütterer, Detlef Damaske, Georg Kleinschmidt, 2006
7
Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in ...
Fawna J. Korhonen* James H. Stout Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455- 0219, USA ABSTRACT Sapphirine + quartz-bearing pelitic gneisses from Wilson  ...
Richard P. Tollo, 2004
8
Pyrometamorphism
Cordierite does not occur with sapphirine, but is found in a “mottled” zone associated with spinel that is developed along the contact with anorthosite and where sapphirine may be replaced by spinel. In other xenoliths, cordierite occurs with ...
Rodney Grapes, 2010
9
Issues in Geology and Mineralogy: 2013 Edition
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia: lgne0us sapphirine as a product of melt -peridotite interactions in the Finero Phlogopite-Peridotite Massif, Western Italian Alps By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Mining & Minerals ...
‎2013
10
Origin and Evolution of Precambrian High-grade Gneiss ...
Prograde to Peak Assemblages/Reactions Staurolite + sapphirine + quartz. It is generally known that inclusion minerals in coarse-grained poikiloblastic phases such as garnet in granulites rarely preserve any trace of prograde meta- ...
D. D. Van Reenen, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SAPPHIRINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sapphirine is used in the context of the following news items.
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SI Vault: Gettin' nowhere fast with the laid-back Raiders QB Kenny …
All you'll come away with is an impression of flickering tongue and a sapphirine slithering through the weeds. It began in Memphis, where Stabler was expected ... «SI.com, Jul 15»
2
Is Kailua Hawaii's Next Waikiki?
With the beaches' white-powder sand, calm, sapphirine water, purple sunrises and cooling trade winds, it's easy to understand why many people have started to ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
3
A date with the Russian Arctic
More than once, the Acrtic opened to them its treasury — like when from somewhere under the ice, there appeared a clear, sapphirine iceberg. Even history ... «Pensacola News Journal, Feb 15»
4
Porsche 911 (997) Carrera S Cabriolet modified by Cam Shaft and …
Cam Shaft was in charge of covering the convertible's body with a sapphirine foil wrap with shiny gold accents. The next step was to remove stock wheels and ... «WorldCarFans.com, May 14»
5
PP-Performance Porsche 911 Cabrio by Cam Shaft
Cam Shaft really exhausted its resources this time trying to come up with something interesting for this 911, settling at last on a matt sapphirine foil wrap ... «Motorward, May 14»
6
Individualität ist Trumpf – BMW 335i
In the present case, the Bavarian professionals choose a BMW 335i Touring (E91), originally in sapphirine black. After the house own „MB“ power improvement ... «regionews.at, Feb 14»
7
Claire E Lazareth
1993 Maîtrise de Sciences de la Terre, mention géologie fondamentale et appliquée, Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I) Pétrologie - rapport "La sapphirine ... «Futura Sciences, Sep 08»
8
Relative Strangers
But all seems relatively well in Ocean Beach until, in 1953, an elegantly dressed white man, with a broken nose and “sapphirine” blue eyes, rings at the door; ... «New Yorker, Apr 08»
9
4th Jiuzhaigou Ice Waterfall Tourism Festival kicks off
9, 2008. Jiuzhaigou in the winter becomes a fairyland of glittering and translucent ice waterfalls, snow-caped mountains and sapphirine lakes covered in white. «Xinhua, Jan 08»
10
True North Gems' 'Big Red' Greenland Ruby Occurrence Keeps on …
Three drill holes at Sarfaq have confirmed distinctive sapphirine-gedrite-phlogopite-pargasite alteration, similar to the Host Zone of the Aappaluttoq occurrence– ... «HULIQ, Jan 08»

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