Granite definition

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A common, coarse-grained, light-colored, hard igneous rock consisting chiefly of quartz, orthoclase or microcline, and mica, used in monuments and for building.
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A very hard, coarsegrained, gray to pink, intrusive igneous rock, composed mainly of feldspar, quartz, mica, and hornblende.
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An island in South Australia.
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A usually light-colored, coarse-grained igneous rock consisting mostly of quartz, orthoclase feldspar, sodium-rich plagioclase feldspar, and micas. Quartz usually makes up 10 to 50 percent of the light-colored minerals in granite, with the remaining minerals consisting of the feldspars and muscovite. The darker minerals in granite are usually biotite and hornblende. Granite is one of the most common rocks in the crust of continents, and is formed by the slow, underground cooling of magma.
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The definition of granite is a hard light-colored igneous rock used for building and monuments.

An example of granite is the rock frequently used in a home's kitchen counters.

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A town in Colorado.
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A town in Oklahoma.
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A CDP in Utah.
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Unyielding endurance; steadfastness.

A will of granite.

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Noun

Singular:
granite
Plural:
granites

Origin of granite

  • Italian granito from past participle of granire to make grainy from grano grain from Latin grānum gr̥ə-no- in Indo-European roots

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

Granite Sentence Examples

  • Other important granite quarries are near Williamstown, Dummerston, Berlin and Woodbury.

  • Lee, surmounting a lofty granite pedestal at the head of Franklin Street.

  • The houses, with very few exceptions, are built of wood, but the streets are paved with blocks of granite and marble.

  • The value of the building stone increased from $150,000 in 1892 to $800,177 (of which $764,272 was the value of granite) in 1908.

  • Ungava includes much of the lower portion of Labrador, with a rim of recent marine deposits along its western coast, but the interior has the usual character of low rocky hills of Archean rocks, especially granite and gneiss, with a long band of little disturbed iron-bearing rocks, resembling the Animikie, or Upper Huronian of the Lake Superior region, near its eastern side.

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