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micanite

micanite noun: a manufactured material consisting of small sheets of mica cemented with shellac or other insulating cement on cloth or paper.

Noun

micanite (countable and uncountable, plural micanites)

  1. A manufactured material consisting of small sheets of mica cemented with shellac or other insulating cement on cloth or paper.

micanite meaning in Kannada

micanite in Kannada

ಖನಿಜ, ಅಭ್ರಕ

Forms of micanite

pluralmicanites

Origin of micanite

Trade name coined in the 1890s from mica + -ite with insertion of -n- on analogy of vulcanite and ebonite.

Questions about micanite

What does micanite mean?
Micanite means a manufactured material consisting of small sheets of mica cemented with shellac or other insulating cement on cloth or paper.
What is micanite in Kannada?
Micanite in Kannada is ಖನಿಜ, ಅಭ್ರಕ. See Micanite meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is micanite?
Micanite is a noun.
What is the plural of micanite?
The plural of micanite is micanites.

Words near micanite in the dictionary

  1. micaless
  2. micalike
  3. Micallef
  4. Micallefs
  5. Micalo Island
  6. micanite
  7. micanites
  8. micareoid
  9. micarta
  10. micartas
  11. micas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: micanite (page history and authors); micanite (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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