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PRONUNCIATION OF STALACTITIC

stalactitic  [ˌstæləkˈtɪtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STALACTITIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stalactitic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES STALACTITIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of stalactitic in the English dictionary

The definition of stalactitic in the dictionary is of, relating to, or resembling a stalactite.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STALACTITIC


analytic
ˌænəˈlɪtɪk
biotitic
ˌbaɪəˈtɪtɪk
catalytic
ˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
critic
ˈkrɪtɪk
haematitic
ˌhiːməˈtɪtɪk
magnetitic
ˌmæɡnɪˈtɪtɪk
mastitic
mæˈstɪtɪk
micropegmatitic
ˌmaɪkrəʊˌpɛɡməˈtɪtɪk
myelocytic
ˌmaɪələʊˈsɪtɪk
otitic
əʊˈtɪtɪk
parotitic
ˌpærəˈtɪtɪk
pegmatitic
ˌpeɡməˈtɪtɪk
peridotitic
ˌpɛrɪdəʊˈtɪtɪk
periostitic
ˌpɛrɪɒˈstɪtɪk
politic
ˈpɒlɪtɪk
rectitic
rɛkˈtɪtɪk
smectitic
smɛkˈtɪtɪk
steatitic
ˌstɪəˈtɪtɪk
stomatitic
ˌstəʊməˈtɪtɪk
tektitic
tekˈtɪtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STALACTITIC

stalactic
stalactical
stalactiform
stalactital
stalactite
stalactited
stalactitical
stalactitically
stalactitiform
stalactitious
stalag
stalagmite
stalagmitic
stalagmitical
stalagmitically
stalagmometer
stale
stale bull
stalely
stalemate

WORDS THAT END LIKE STALACTITIC

anti-Semitic
antiparasitic
arthritic
ascitic
dendritic
diacritic
dolomitic
ferritic
film critic
graphitic
hematitic
hermaphroditic
impolitic
martensitic
pearlitic
pleuritic
pruritic
Semitic
spherulitic
Sybaritic

Synonyms and antonyms of stalactitic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «stalactitic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STALACTITIC

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

Translator English - Chinese

钟乳状
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

estalactítico
570 millions of speakers

English

stalactitic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

stalactitic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

stalactitic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сталактитовых
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

stalactitic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

stalactitic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

stalactites
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Stalactitic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tropfstein
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

stalactitic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

stalactitic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Stalactitic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

stalactitic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

stalactitic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्लेक्टेक्टिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sarkıtlarla ilgili
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stalattitica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stalactitic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сталактитових
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stalactitice de tipul macaroanelor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σταλακτιτικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stalactitic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stalactitic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stalactitic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stalactitic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STALACTITIC»

The term «stalactitic» is used very little and occupies the 178.031 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STALACTITIC» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STALACTITIC»

Discover the use of stalactitic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stalactitic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the ...
H6Fe209=25e03.3H20 Stalactitic 1019. Fibrous stalactitic LIMONITE. case No. w. Bollenhach, near Herdorf, Siegen. 1020. Fibrous stalactitic LIMONITE. Bieber, Spessartwald. 1021. Radiating fibrous stalactitic LIMONITE. Siegen, Westphalia.
Geological Survey of India, 1883
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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of ...
Stalactitic Calamine, or Carbonate of Zinc. Aldstone Moor, Cumberland. Presented by the late John Taylor. 429. Stalactitic Brown Oxide of Ikon. Mines of Goruneschewsk, District of Alapayevsh, Russia. Presented by the Imperial Mining  ...
Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1864
3
A descriptive catalogue of the collections of minerals in ...
LIMONITE. H6Fe209=2£e03.3H20 stalaetitic. 1019 Fikrous stalactitic LIMONITE. Bollenbach, near Herdorf, Siegen. 1020. Fibrous stalactitic LIMONITE. Bieber, Spessartwald. 1021. Radiating fibrous stalactitic LIMONITE. Siegen, Westphalia.
Geological Survey of India. Museum, Frederick Richard Mallet, 1883
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Meddelelser om Gronland
Prosopite precipitated as flint-like, fine grained masses between the ralstonite crystals and the other already formed minerals. Stalactitic or agate-like fluorite The stalactitic fluorite observed in these prosopite samples represents a very striking ...
5
Journal
Loc, Warwickshire. 1873 Do. Light steel-grey, radiated prisms. 1874 Do. Flat prisms, on Calcite. Loc, Ihlefeld, Hartz. Psilomelane. — Large reniform drusy mass, with Quartz. Do. Reniform or stalactitic mass, on oxide of iron. Loc, Lostwithiel. Do.
Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1881
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Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall
L8.rg6 reniform drusy mass, with Quartz. 1876 Do. Reniform or Stalactitic mass, on oxide of iron. £00., Lostwithiel. 1877 Do. Mammillary mass. 1878 Do. Delicate dendritic mass. 1879 Do. Cleavable mass, tarnished. 1830 Do. Stalactitic mass.
Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1881
7
Resources of Tennessee
Some of the seams are composed of psilomelane having stalactitic or comb structures perpendicular to their walls which meet and interlock at the center, showing deposition or replacement to have taken place simultaneously on both sides of ...
‎1918
8
Geology and Oil Resources of the West Border of the San ...
has a botryoidal, mammillary, or stalactitic form. Rogers believes that this massive zinc sulphide is also wurtzite, because of the close association of the wurtzite crystals with it, because of the similarity of color, streak, and powder, and, lastly, ...
Robert van Vleck Anderson, Robert Wallace Pack, 1915
9
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Supplement to the 4th, 5th, and ...
Mineralogy, cretions, stalactitic, in loose earthy particles, and in >rf"V"*"'' crusts. More or less translucent. Geognostic and Geographic Situations. — Occurs on soils and rocks of different descriptions, in Scotland, England, and other countries .
‎1824
10
Bulletin - United States Geological Survey
This material has stalactitic, botryoidal, and massive forms of sphalerite, each of which shows the skeletal intergrowths of galena and sphalerite. The largest specimen of the stalactitic type appears to have grown pendant from a projecting  ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1916

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STALACTITIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stalactitic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Emily Young: Call and Response London
It's stalagmitic and stalactitic, and there's an air bubble and you can see crystals growing. There's a lot of iron in here. From that you can deduce that water got in ... «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»
2
The Great Porphyry Copper Deposits of Arizona
... and sparkled with the blue crystals of azurite, while from the roofs hung translucent stalactitic draperies of calcite, delicately banded and tinted with the salts of ... «Geology for Investors, Feb 15»
3
Sphalerite – Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
They are also fibrous, botryoidal, stalactitic, cleavable, coarse to fine granular and massive; Twinning: Twin axis [111], twin plane {111}, simple contact twins or ... «Azomining, May 13»
4
Darwin Glass: 816000 to 7000 years ago
It is usually very irregular, slaggy, with twisted stalactitic forms and with rare teardrop and disc-like shapes. Numerous bubble pits are present and the pieces are ... «ABC Online, Feb 13»
5
Aurora hunters
Sinuous, stalactitic columns dropped to the horizon, caressing the mountains, then disappeared to be replaced by great verdant plumes racing upwards like the ... «Financial Times, Jan 12»
6
Collecting Microminerals in the Creede Mining District
Cubic crystals of galena under 3 mm cover what appear to be stalactitic growths to 5 cm long with a hollow tube down their center. Gypsum was not common on ... «RedOrbit, Sep 08»

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