meaning of granite
1. A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.
2. New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite.
3. something having the quality of granite unyielding firmness; "a man of
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granite | granite state | granitelike | graniteware |
