Usually means: Hard, sedimentary rock, silica-rich.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. chert: Merriam-Webster
  2. chert: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chert: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chert: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chert: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chert, chert: Wordnik
  7. chert: Wiktionary
  8. chert: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chert: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. chert: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. chert: Dictionary.com
  12. chert: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Chert: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Chert: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. chert: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. chert: Rhymezone
  17. Chert: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. chert: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. chert: FreeDictionary.org
  20. chert: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. chert: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chert: Encyclopedia

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Chert: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  5. chert: Natural History Terms

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chert)

▸ noun:  (geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.
▸ noun:  (countable) A flint-like tool made from chert.

Similar:
metachert, chertification, quartzine, chalcedonyx, chalcedony, calcedony, phthanite, schertelite, novaculite, chalkstone, more...

Opposite:
porous, sedimentary, non-crystalline.

Types:
flint, jasper, obsidian, chalk, more...

Phrases:
Rhynie chert, more...

Adjectives:
black, white, gray, brown, red, dark, grey, bedded, local, ferruginous, much

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     red,     green,     yellow, more...


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Similar:
metachert, chertification, quartzine, chalcedonyx, chalcedony, calcedony, phthanite, schertelite, novaculite, chalkstone, more...

Opposite:
porous, sedimentary, non-crystalline.

Types:
flint, jasper, obsidian, chalk, more...

Phrases:
Rhynie chert, more...

Adjectives:
black, white, gray, brown, red, dark, grey, bedded, local, ferruginous, much

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     red,     green,     yellow, more...



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