GRANIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to granit; like granit; having the nature of granitic; as granitic texture. 1. Consisting of granit; as granitic mountains. Granitic aggregates, in mineralogy, granular compounds of two or more simple minerals, in which only one of the essential ingredients of granit is present; as quartz and hornblend, feldspar and shorl, etc. Similar compounds occur, in which none of the ingredients of granit are present.
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