Crossword-Solution: SPECULAR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Specular | a. | Having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface. |
| Specular | a. | Of or pertaining to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum; as, a specular examination. |
| Specular | a. | Assisting sight, as a lens or the like. |
| Specular | a. | Affording view. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPECULAR | anagram | CLEARSUP, CLEARUPS |
We have 1 clue for the answer “SPECULAR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Resembling a mirror | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SPECULAR (5)
Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west; behold Where on the AEgean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil— Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts 240 And Eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Democritus and Epicurus, that the specular appearances are made by the subsistence of the images which flow from our eyes; these fall upon the mirror and remain, while the light returns to the eye.
The trachyte is generally of a pale brown colour, stained with small darker patches; it contains broken and bent crystals of glassy feldspar, grains of specular iron, and black microscopical points, which latter, from being easily fused, and then becoming magnetic, I presume are hornblende.
Numerous other minerals are at times mistaken for tin, the most common of which are tourmaline or schorl, garnet, wolfram (which is a tungstate of iron with manganese), rutile or titanic acid, blackjack or zinc blende, together with magnetic, titanic, and specular iron in fine grains.
Very frequently the copper-ores, including some gold, are associated with abundant micaceous specular iron.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1982).