Usually means: Minerals containing silicon and oxygen.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. silicate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. silicate: Merriam-Webster
  3. silicate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. silicate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. silicate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. silicate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Silicate, silicate: Wordnik
  8. silicate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. silicate: Wiktionary
  10. silicate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. silicate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. silicate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. silicate: Dictionary.com
  14. Silicate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Silicate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. silicate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. silicate: Rhymezone
  18. Silicate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. silicate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. silicate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. silicate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. silicate: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. SILICATE: Glossary of Art Terms

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. silicate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. silicate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. silicate: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silicate: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. silicate: Nine Planets Glossary
  3. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  4. silicate: Dictionary of Geology

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. silicate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See silicates as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (inorganic chemistry) Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates.

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