vitrite

English

Etymology

From Latin vitrum (“glass”), +‎ -ite.

Noun

vitrite (countable and uncountable, plural vitrites)

1. A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vitrite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)