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
- 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
- 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 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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A non-organic homogeneous substance.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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