Briquette definition

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briquettes
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A block of compressed coal dust, charcoal, or sawdust and wood chips, used for fuel and kindling.
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To form (ore particles, etc.) into briquettes.
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Alternative form of briquet.
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A small block of compressed matter; specif., one made of charcoal, compressed coal dust, sawdust, etc., used for fuel or kindling.
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Noun

Singular:
briquette
Plural:
briquettes

Origin of briquette

  • French diminutive of brique brick from Middle Dutch bricke

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

  • From Wiktionary

Briquette Sentence Examples

  • The various methods will be considered first for the trapezette, the extensions to the briquette being only treated briefly.

  • A briquette may therefore be defined as a solid figure bounded by a pair of parallel planes, another pair of parallel planes at right angles to these, a base at right angles to these four planes (and therefore rectangular), and a top which is a surface of any form, but such that every ordinate from the base cuts it in one point and one point only.

  • The figure is such as would be produced by removing a piece of a rectangular prism, and is called a briquette.

  • The briquette may usually be regarded as divided into a series of minor briquettes by two sets of parallel planes, the planes of each set being at successively equal distances.

  • In some cases the data for a trapezette or a briquette are not only certain ordinates within or on the boundary of the figure, but also others forming the continuation of the series outside the figure.

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