Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to feldspar or containing it: an epithet applied to any mineral in which feldspar predominates. Also written
felspathic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mineralogy Containing
feldspar .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The rock here is a porphyritic granite (porhyritic meaning that the stone has large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic matrix or groundmass).
Of Books and the Sea greygirlbeast 2010
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The rock here is a porphyritic granite (porhyritic meaning that the stone has large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic matrix or groundmass).
Of Books and the Sea greygirlbeast 2010
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And as far as craftsmanship, depending on which cosmetic dentist you go to, he or she will work with porcelain veneers fabricated by a machine out of Lucite, or porcelain veneers handcrafted out of feldspathic porcelain by a master artist (yes, I call the people who do this type of work artists.)
Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Celebrity Smiles: Why Do They Have to Be So Perfect ? How? 2010
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The composition is what we ceramic engineers call Âfeldspathic.
European Lithographic | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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The Northern Inner Piedmont (45e) is characteristically underlain by highly deformed and deeply weathered Cambrian and Proterozoic feldspathic gneiss, schist, and melange.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Between the heavy clays and blue mud of the mangrove swamps and the granite and sandstone of the mountain ranges, the undulating rises are mainly composed of red clay, sandstones, shales, and granitic and feldspathic rocks, with extensive deposits of laterite in red clays on the surface.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty, in others of a feldspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine.
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Near the coast the rough lava is quite bare: in the central and higher parts feldspathic rocks by their decomposition have produced
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Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty, in others of a feldspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine.
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Near the coast the rough lava is quite bare: in the central and higher parts feldspathic rocks by their decomposition have produced
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