Graphite Definition

grăfīt
noun
A very soft, black, hexagonal mineral of pure carbon, formed in thin plates and found in metamorphic rocks: used in making electrodes, paints, the lead of pencils, etc.
Webster's New World

Short for graphite-reinforced plastic, a composite plastic made with graphite fibers noted for light weight strength and stiffness.

Modern tennis racquets are made of graphite, fibreglass and other man-made materials.
Wiktionary

A grey colour.

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Noun

Singular:
graphite
Plural:
graphites

Origin of Graphite

  • From German Graphit (A.G. Werner 1789), from Ancient Greek γράφω (graphō, “I write”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek graphein to write gerbh- in Indo-European roots –ite

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Graphite Sentence Examples

  • The massive graphite is very easily machined and is widely used for electrodes, dynamo brushes, lead pencils and the like.

  • Graphite and some silver ores have also been found.

  • It is a black crystalline powder, resembling graphite in appearance.

  • Wotton's letter of 1620, already noted, was not published till 1651 (Reliquiae Wottonianae, p. 141), but in 1658 a description of Kepler's portable tent camera for sketching, taken from it, was published in a work called Graphite, or the most excellent Art of Painting, but no mention is made of Kepler.

  • Its other mineral resources include graphite, copper, zinc, lead, salt, alum, potter's clay, marble and good mill and building stones.

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Words Starting With

GGRGRA

Words Ending With

ETEITE

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