MINERAL
\mˈɪnəɹə͡l], \mˈɪnəɹəl], \m_ˈɪ_n_ə_ɹ_əl]\
Definitions of MINERAL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition
By Princeton University
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An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.
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A mine.
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Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).
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Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
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Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.
By Oddity Software
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An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.
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A mine.
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Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).
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Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
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Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.
By Noah Webster.
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Any substance not animal or vegetable; any chemical compound resulting naturally from inorganic processes; ore.
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Pertaining to, consisting of, or mingled with, a substance not animal or vegetable.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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An inorganic substance found in the earth or at its surface: any substance containing a metal.
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Relating to minerals: impregnated with minerals, as water: a term applied to inorganic substances.
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MINERALIZATION.
By Daniel Lyons
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MINERALIZATION.
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Pertaining to or resembling minerals; inorganic.
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A substance neither animal nor vegetable, and commonly solid; any inorganic substance.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Pertaining to or consisting of minerals; impregnated with mineral matter. The mineral kingdom, the third grand division of natural objects, embracing all inorganic substances whatever. Mineral acids, the sulphuric, nitric, hydrochloric, &c. Mineral black, oxide of carbon. Mineral caoutchouc, an elastic mineral pitch or bitumen. Mineral green, carbonate of copper. Mineral salt, salt found native, formed by mineral acids with bases. Mineral waters, waters impregnated with mineral substances.
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Any inorganic substance found in the earth.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A non-organic homogeneous substance.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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