"adularize" meaning in English

See adularize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: adularizes [present, singular, third-person], adularizing [participle, present], adularized [participle, past], adularized [past]
Etymology: From adularia. Head templates: {{en-verb}} adularize (third-person singular simple present adularizes, present participle adularizing, simple past and past participle adularized)
  1. (geology) to gain or be replaced by adularia

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From adularia.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "adularizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "adularizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "adularized",
      "tags": [
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. F. V. Hayden, Geologist-in-charge, page 153",
          "text": "At some localities the sanidite is adularizing."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              209,
              219
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1935, Nevada Bureau of Mines, Bulletin:",
          "text": "[…] albite, calcite, and pyrite -- are compounds of magnesium, sodium, calcium, and iron, which are the principal elements removed during adularization. The peripheral relation of the chloritized rocks to the adularized rocks […]",
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        }
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        "(geology) to gain or be replaced by adularia"
      ],
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        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}
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  "etymology_text": "From adularia.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "adularizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "adularizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "adularized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "adularized",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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              209,
              219
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          "text": "[…] albite, calcite, and pyrite -- are compounds of magnesium, sodium, calcium, and iron, which are the principal elements removed during adularization. The peripheral relation of the chloritized rocks to the adularized rocks […]",
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