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endmember

noun
/ˈɛndmɛmbə/UK/ˈɛndmɛmbɚ/US

Etymology

From end + member.

  1. derived from *mḗms✻
  2. derived from *memzrom✻
  3. derived from membrum
  4. derived from membre
  5. derived from membre
  6. compounded as endmember — “end + member”

Definitions

  1. A member at one end of a range or series made up of similar members.

  2. A mineral that occurs at one end in a range of solid solutions.

    • Both the endmembers, epidote and clinozoisite, form the epidote sequence, in which part of the aluminium is progressively replaced by Fe³⁺; epidote is a typical mineral of the greenschist facies.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for endmember. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA