maghemite
noun
maghemite is a noun meaning “A magnetic mineral with a grey blue, white, or brown shade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-G-H-E-M-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of maghemite is maghemites.
What does maghemite mean?
noun
- 1
A magnetic mineral with a grey blue, white, or brown shade.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of maghemite
- maghemites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is maghemite?
Maghemite appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does maghemite come from?
After the beginnings of magnetite and hematite in 1927, because of magnetism and similar arrangement of elements.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).