1) An entrance of stone 2) Ancient May birthstone 3) Bagmate for a steelie 4) Banded chalcedony 5) Banded gem 6) Banded gemstone 7) Banded marble 8) Banded mineral 9) Banded quartz 10) Banded rock 11) Banded stone 12) Beautiful stone 13) Box score print size 14) Brightly colored rock 15) Brightly colored silica
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1) Gagate 2) Marble 3) Stone
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[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 which conducts development and evaluation programs...
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Agate t is a cryptocrystalline 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. ==Etymology and history== The stone was given its name by Th...
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[rocket] Agate is the designation of an unguided French test rocket. The Agate has a length of 8.50 metres, a diameter of 0.80 metres, 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 order to test instrument capsules and recovery system...
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[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 to a font that is 5.5 points. An Agate font is commonly used to display statistical data or legal notices in newspapers. It is considered to be the smallest point size th...
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• (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 delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended i...
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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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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 varieties. ... 2. A kind of type, larger than pearl an...
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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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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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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 arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds. �...
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A·gate' adverb [ Prefix
a- on +
gate way.] On the way; agoing; as, to be
agate ; to set the bells
agate . [ Obsolete]
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A variety of cryptocrystalline quartz in which colors occur in bands. It is commonly deposited in cavities in rocks.
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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 in which these materials are arranged causes the ag...
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Agate is slang for a marble.
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A variegated variety or quartz allowing colored bands or other markings (clouded, moss-like, etc
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Concentric layers of chalcedony with different colours and porosity.
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noun an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
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Cryptocrystalline (with crystals too small to be seen with an optical microscope) silica, SiO
2, 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 ceramics and as clean vessels for grinding ro...
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A variegated variety of quartz showing colored bands or other markings (clouded, mosslike, etc.).
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A siliceous rock with alternating bands of chalcedony and variously colored chert.
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A type size of 5 1/2 points. Reference, agate line.
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Is a variety of quartz commonly associated with volcanic rocks. It presents itself as a hard stone and has a wide range of colors
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a variegated chalcedony showing curved, colored bands or other markings. · a playing marble made of this substance, or of glass in imitation of it. · a 5-point type of a size between pearl and nonpareil. Cf. ruby (def. 5).
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