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  1. Agate
    Agate is slang for a marble.
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  2. agate
    [n] - an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony
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  3. Agate
    Concentric layers of chalcedony with different colours and porosity.
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  4. agate
    Fine-grained quartz used as a semiprecious stone in CAMEO and INTAGLIO work and in jewellery such as signet rings and brooches, particularly during the 19thC. When polished, agate reveals variegated tones of soft browns and oranges, blues, greys or greens, foten with irregular milky bands.
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  5. Agate
    A·gate' adverb [ Prefix a- on + gate way.] On the way; agoing; as, to be agate ; to set the bells agate . [ Obsolete] Cotgrave.
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  6. Agate
    Ag'ate noun [ French agate , Italian agata , Latin achates , from Greek ....] 1. (Min.) A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arrange...
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  7. agate
    1. <chemical> A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colours are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds. ... The fortification agate, or Scotch pebble, the moss agate, the clouded agate, etc, are familiar vari...
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  8. agate
    noun an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
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  9. Agate
    • (n.) A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby. • (adv.) On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate. • (n.) A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are del...
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  10. agate
    common semiprecious silica mineral, a variety of chalcedony (q.v.) that occurs in bands of varying colour and transparency. Agate is essentially ... [2 related articles]
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  11. Agate
    Agate is a Greek girl name. The meaning of the name is `Kind` Alternative meanings (Modern English) Precious Gem The name Agate doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Agate seems to be unique!
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  12. AGATE
    [architecture framework] AGATE (Atelier de Gestion de l`ArchiTEcture des systèmes d`information et de communication) is a framework for modeling computer or communication systems architecture. It is promoted by the Délégation Générale pour l`Armement (DGA), the French government agency ...
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  1. agate
    Cryptocrystalline (with crystals too small to be seen with an optical microscope) silica, SiO2, composed of cloudy and banded chalcedony, sometimes mixed with opal, that forms in rock cavities. Agate stones, being hard, are also used to burnish and polish gold applied to glass and ceramic...
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  2. Agate
    [disambiguation] Agate is a semi-precious stone. Agate may also refer to: ==Geography== ==Other uses== ...
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  3. Agate
    Agate is slang for a marble.
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  4. Agate
    [rocket] Agate is the designation of an unguided French test rocket. The Agate has a length of 8.50 meters, a diameter of 0.80 meters, a start mass of 3.2 tonnes, a takeoff thrust of 186 kN and a ceiling of 20 km. The Agate was launched from the Hammaguir and Ile de Levant test sites, in ord...
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  5. Agate
    HMS Agate (formerly the Mavis Rose) was a British armed trawler of 627 tons displacement launched in 1934 and used by the British navy during the Second World War for anti-submarine training. HMS Agate had a top speed of 12 knots and was armed with one 4-inch gun and depth charges.
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  6. Agate
    Agate (t) is a microcrystalline variety of silica, chiefly chalcedony, characterised by its fineness of grain and brightness of color. Although agates may be found in various kinds of rock, they are classically associated with volcanic rocks and can be common in certain metamorphic rocks. ==Etymolo...
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  7. Agate
    A semi-precious chalcedony formed as quartz fossils of a previous geological age. The colors of agate can be clouded, clear or banded.
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  8. agate
    Lake Superior agate. Credit: Rayer-minerals A mineral and gemstone composed of layers of quartz, generally of different varieties of colors, intimately joined together. Agate usually occurs as rounded nodules or veins in other rock. The layers of colored quartz are often concentric, and sometim...
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  9. agate
    agate (ăg'it) , translucent, cryptocrystalline variety of quartz and a subvariety of chalcedony. Agates are identical in chemical structure to jasper, flint, chert, petrified wood, and tiger's-eye, and are often found in association with opal. The colorful, banded rocks are used as a semip...
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  10. Agate
    Agate is a semi-precious stone siliceous semi-pellucid compound mineral, consisting of bands or layers of various colours blended together, the base generally being chalcedony, and this mixed with variable proportions of jasper, amethyst, quartz, opal, heliotrope, and carnelian. The varying manner i...
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  11. Agate
    [typography] An agate is a unit of typographical measure. It is 5.5 typographical points, or about 1/14 of an inch. It can refer to either the height of a line of type or a font that is 5.5 points. An agate font was{when|date=February 2011} commonly used to display statistical data or legal ...
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  12. agate
    1) ... fossil beds national monument 2) 5 1&slash;2- point type 3) 5 1&slash;2-point 4) 5 1
    Found op 2-point type 5) 5-1&slash;2 point type 6) 5-1

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