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microlite
Word definitions for microlite in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Microlite \Mi"cro*lite\, n. [Micro- + -lite.] (Min.) A rare mineral of resinous luster and high specific gravity. It is a tantalate of calcium, and occurs in octahedral crystals usually very minute. (Min.) A minute inclosed crystal, often observed when ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context mineral English) A basic fluoride of sodium, calcium, tantalum and niobium that is isomorphous with pyrochlore 2 (context archaeology English) A microlith
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Microlite is a pale-yellow, reddish-brown, or black isometric mineral composed of sodium calcium tantalum oxide with a small amount of fluorine (Na,Ca)TaO(O,OH,F). Microlite is a mineral in the pyrochlore group that occurs in pegmatites and constitutes ...
Usage examples of microlite.
Onan Microlite 4000 is essentially a lawn mower motor that drives a tiny electrical generating plant to produce 115 volts.
The Onan Microlite 4000 is essentially a lawn mower motor that drives a tiny electrical generating plant to produce 115 volts.
They left the camp, with microlites on their boot tops illuminating the way ahead, and made their way through thickets of kinkpine saplings and occasional donkey trees, their knotted limbs creaking loudly in the wind.
They left the camp, with microlites on their boot tops illuminating the way ahead, and made their way through thickets of kinkpine saplings and occasional donkey trees, their knotted limbs creaking loudly in the wind.
The skyport’s on a plateau above the town, its traffic everything from buzzing microlites and zippy little skiffs through new lifting-body aerodynes to the great clunky contraptions of human-built starships like the one he’s just stepped off.
In combat configuration, the train would haul ten 'battle-wagons' equipped with multi-barrelled gun turrets along the top and sides, a 'blood-wagon' crewed by a team of combat medics headed by Surgeon-Captain Keever and a flight-car which housed the wagon-train's own airforce - ten Skyhawk Mark I's, the single-seat delta-winged microlite whose production centenary had been celebrated in 2983.