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glassite

glassite noun: a fictional material, typically described as being transparent like glass.

Noun (1)

glassite (uncountable)

  1. A fictional material, typically described as being transparent like glass.
    • One of those cyclopean cylinders could, conceivably, miss the guiding beam and crash half a mile from its expected landing point—through the glassite roof of the immense waiting room perhaps—so that only a thin organic vapor and some powdered phosphates would be left behind to mark the passing of a...1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, page 135

Noun (2) capitalized: Glassite

Glassite (plural Glassites)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Glasite.

Forms of glassite

pluralGlassites

Origin of glassite

From glass + -ite.

Questions about glassite

What does glassite mean?
Glassite means a fictional material, typically described as being transparent like glass.
What part of speech is glassite?
Glassite is a noun.
What is the plural of glassite?
The plural of glassite is Glassites.

Words near glassite in the dictionary

  1. glassing
  2. glassings
  3. glassinomer
  4. glassinomers
  5. glassionomer
  6. glassite
  7. Glassites
  8. glassless
  9. glasslessness
  10. glasslike
  11. glassmaker

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