Usually means: Mineral, magnesium aluminum oxide, gemstone.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. spinel: Merriam-Webster
  2. spinel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spinel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spinel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spinel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spinel, spinel: Wordnik
  7. spinel: Wiktionary
  8. spinel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. spinel (spinelle): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. spinel: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. spinel: Dictionary.com
  12. Spinel (Steven Universe), Spinel (character), Spinel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Spinel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. spinel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. spinel: Rhymezone
  16. Spinel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. spinel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. spinel: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. spinel: FreeDictionary.org
  20. spinel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. spinel: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spinel: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spinel: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. SPINEL: The Mineral Gallery

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spinel)

noun:  (mineralogy) Any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours.
noun:  (solid state chemistry) Any crystalline material, not necessarily an oxide, that possesses the same crystal structure as this mineral.
noun:  Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.

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