perlite

English

Etymology

From French perle (“pearl”) + -ite.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: pearlite

Noun

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Wikipedia

perlite (plural perlites)

1. (mineralogy) An amorphous volcanic glass formed by the hydration of obsidian.

   Synonym: pearlstone

2. The lightweight insulating material and aggregate resulting from expanding perlite glass by heat.
   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled!‎:

     Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]

Derived terms

• perlitic

Translations

perlite

Catalan: perlita f Finnish: perliitti (fi) French: perlite (fr) f German: Perlit m Indonesian: perlit (id) Italian: perlite f Polish: perlit (pl) m Portuguese: perlita Romanian: perlită (ro) f Spanish: perlita f Turkish: perlit (tr)

Anagrams

• Peltier, peitrel, rep-tile, reptile, triple-E

French

Noun

perlite f (plural perlites)

1. perlite

Descendants

• → Romanian: perlită f
• → Turkish: perlit

Further reading

• “perlite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

From perla +‎ -lite.

Noun

perlite f (plural perliti)

1. (mineralogy) perlite

Anagrams

• Pertile

Latin

Participle

perlite

1. vocative masculine singular of perlitus