Usually means: Metamorphic rock derived from sandstone.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. quartzite: Merriam-Webster
  2. quartzite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quartzite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quartzite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quartzite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quartzite, quartzite: Wordnik
  7. quartzite: Wiktionary
  8. quartzite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. quartzite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. quartzite: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. quartzite: Dictionary.com
  12. Quartzite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Quartzite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. quartzite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. quartzite: Rhymezone
  16. Quartzite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. quartzite: FreeDictionary.org
  18. quartzite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. quartzite: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quartzite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Quartzite: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quartzite: Ceramic Glossary Database
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quartzite)

noun:  (mineralogy) A metamorphic rock from sandstone, consisting of interlocking grains of quartz.

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