barite

1. 1.

   a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium

   Synonymsheavy sparbarytesbarium sulphate

   Broadermineral

Other forms of barite

plural

barites·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about barite

What does barite mean?

barite means "a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium".

How many syllables are in barite?

barite has 2 syllables: bar-ite. The stress falls on "bar". In IPA it is /ˈbɛɹaɪt/.

What is another word for barite?

Close synonyms include heavy spar, barytes, barium sulphate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barite a common word?

barite is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.