Usually means: Coarse-grained, igneous rock, quartz-rich.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. granite: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. granite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. granite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. granite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. granite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Granite, granite, granite, granite: Wordnik
  7. granite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Granite, granite: Wiktionary
  9. granite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. granite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. granite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. granite: Dictionary.com
  13. granite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. granite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Granite (Stifter), Granite (disambiguation), Granite (song), Granite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Granite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. granite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. granite: Rhymezone
  19. Granite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. granite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. granite: Free Dictionary
  22. granite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. granite: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. granite: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. granite: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. granite: Encyclopedia

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

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. granite: Dictionary of Geology
  5. granite: Natural History Terms

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Granite: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. granite: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bridge Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See granitelike as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (petrology) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.
noun:  (uncountable, figurative) Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough.
noun:  An island in South Australia
noun:  A town in Colorado
noun:  A town in Oklahoma
noun:  A census-designated place in Utah
noun:  An unincorporated community in Laramie County, Wyoming, United States.

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