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glassite en · NOUN

Etymology

From glass + -ite.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A fictional material, typically described as being transparent like glass.
    • One of those cyclopean cylinders could, conceivably, miss the guiding beam and crash half a mile from its expected landing point—through the glassite roof of the immense waiting room perhaps—so that only a thin organic vapor and some powdered phosphates would be left behind to mark the passing of a thousand men. 1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, page 135: