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Definitions of granite in various dictionaries:
noun - plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture
noun - something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness)
A common, coarse-grained, light-colored, hard igneous rock consisting chiefly of quartz, orthoclase or microcline, and mica, used in monuments and for building.
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| The most common plutonic rock of the earth's crust, it is big in tombstones |
| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows off a rock in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum.) The University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum has the state rock of Wisconsin; not to be confused with the state rock of New Hampshire, it's the red type of this |
| New Hampshire's state rock of coarse is this common building material |
| The rock of ages quarry in Vermont is the world's largest pit for this rock |
| The most common plutonic rock in the Earth's crust, it makes a great building stone; don't take it for... |
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| a very hard, granular, crystalline, igneous rock consisting mainly of quartz, mica, and feldspar and often used as a building stone. |
| A very hard, granular, crystalline, igneous rock consisting mainly of quartz, mica, and feldspar and often used as a building stone. |
| A common, coarse-grained, light-colored, hard igneous rock consisting chiefly of quartz, orthoclase or microcline, and mica, used in monuments and for building. |
| Unyielding endurance steadfastness: a will of granite. |
| something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness) |
| plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz |
| a very hard, grey, pink, or black rock, used for building |
| a hard gray, pink, or black rock, used in buildings |
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Granite ( ) is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture. Granites can be predominantly white, pink, or gray in color, depending on their mineralogy. The word "granite" comes from the Latin granum, a grain, in reference to the coarse-grained structure of such a holocrystalline rock. Strictly speaking, granite is an igneous rock with between 20% and 60% quartz by volume, and at least 35% of the total feldspar consisting of alkali feldspar, although commonly the term "granite" is used to refer to a wider range of coarse-grained igneous rocks containing quartz and feldspar. * The term "granitic" means granite-like and is applied to granite and a group of intrusive igneous rocks with similar textures and slight variations in composition and origin. These rocks mainly consist of feldspar, quartz, mica, and amphibole minerals, which form an interlocking, somewhat equigranular matrix of feldspar and quartz with scattered darker biotite mica and a |