Selenite

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A soft, glassy form of gypsum (chemical formula CaSO₄·2H₂O).

   “I followed them to my study, and found lying on my writing-table still, with the selenite paper-weight upon it, the sheet of work I had left on the afternoon of the opening of the cylinder.”

2. isim The anion SeO₃²⁻ derived from selenous acid; any salt or ester of selenous acid.
3. isim Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).

   “My first impression was of some clumsy quadruped with lowered head. Then I perceived it was the slender pinched body and short and extremely attenuated bandy legs of a Selenite, with his head depressed between his shoulders.”

4. sıfat Pertaining to the inhabitants of Luna (Lunarians/Selenites).

   “a Selenite colony”