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flakelet

flakelet noun: a small flake.

Noun

flakelet (plural flakelets)

  1. A small flake.
    • The first flake or flakelet that reached me was a mere white speck that came idly circling and eddying to the ground.1895, John Burroughs, Writings: Signs and seasons, page 91
    • As regards the relative speed of the meteor as seen by observers on the Earth, since this, as was just now remarked, is precisely that with which the tempest of celestial missiles originally propelled the meteor, as a dust-flake in its wake, from some revolving masses of the ring, if we suppose...1899, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, page 182

Forms of flakelet

pluralflakelets

Origin of flakelet

From flake + -let.

Questions about flakelet

What does flakelet mean?
Flakelet means a small flake.
What part of speech is flakelet?
Flakelet is a noun.
What is the plural of flakelet?
The plural of flakelet is flakelets.

Words near flakelet in the dictionary

  1. flaked down
  2. flaked off
  3. flaked out
  4. Flakegate
  5. flakeless
  6. flakelet
  7. flakelets
  8. flakelike
  9. flakeproof
  10. flaker
  11. flakers

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