Granite /(grăn"ĭt)/
Gran·ite
Granite
n.
- A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure. (Geol.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Gneissoid granite
- granite in which the mica has traces of a regular arrangement.
- Graphic granite
- granite consisting of quartz and feldspar without mica, and having the quartz crystals so arranged in the transverse section like oriental characters.
- Porphyritic granite
- granite containing feldspar in distinct crystals.
- Hornblende granite
- granite containing hornblende as well as mica, or, according to some authorities hornblende replacing the mica.
- Granite ware
- A kind of stoneware.