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Limestone variety
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oolite
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oolite \O"["o]*lite\, n. [Gr. w,'o`n an egg + -lite: cf. F. o["o]lithe. So named from its resemblance to the roe of fish.] (Geol.) A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive ...
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Oolite is a free and open source 3D space trading and combat simulator in the spirit of Elite . It is, as the name suggests, Object Oriented [E]lite , written in Objective-C . Among Oolite's several similarities to its inspirational source, the gaming experience ...
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n. 1 (context geology English) A rock consisting of spherical grains within a mineral cortex accreted around a nucleus, often of quartz grains. 2 (context countable rare English) An ooid or oolith.
Usage examples of oolite.
Record in Oolite of Fear, whose, and how much, and of how a Village broke in two.
They passed from the district of chalk, successively into the districts of clay, of sand-rock, of oolite, and so forth.
The pavement is of fine oolite, or skylight, or some other stone of that geologic period, and is laid almost flat on the ground, in places.
In the Oolite System, mostly consisting of calcareous beds, mammals make their appearance.
The boat idled down an oolite canal cut through Ramrod and docked behind the Looe Key Reef Resort.
Line yet attempted, in America, where undertakings of its scale are possible, astronomically precise, carefully set prisms of Oolite, the Master-valve of rose Quartz, at the eastern Terminus.