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Pelite vs Petite - What's the difference?

pelite | petite |

As a noun pelite

is a sedimentary rock containing very fine particles.

As an adjective petite is

of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.

pelite

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geology) A sedimentary rock containing very fine particles

    • Related terms

    * metapelite * pelitic ----

    petite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.
  • Of women's clothing: of small size.
  • Small, little; insignificant; petty.
  • * 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
    • The Earth, the Sun, and Stars, what things are they in nature? are they petite things not worth our notice, or grand and worthy of consideration?

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