blende

• blind, blinde

From German Blende, from blenden (“deceive”) (because it resembles galena).

• IPA^(key): /blɛnd/
• Homophone: blend

blende (countable and uncountable, plural blendes)

1. (mineralogy) sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc)
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 310:

     The procedure up here with ordinary local zinc blende had been straightforward—first you got the sulfur to go off by roasting the blende to zinc oxide, and then you reduced the oxide to zinc metal.

• Belden, Bendel, bendel

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɛn.də/

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• Hyphenation: blen‧de
• Rhymes: -ɛndə

Borrowed from German Blende.

blende f (uncountable)

1. metallic sulphide, in particular blende

See the etymology of the main entry.

blende

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blenden

blende m (plural blendes)

1. (mineralogy) blende

blende

1. First-person singular present of blenden.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of blenden.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of blenden.
4. Imperative singular of blenden.

Borrowed from German Blende, from blenden (“to blind”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈblɛndɛ]
• Hyphenation: blen‧de

blende (plural blendék)

1. (photography) aperture (the opening of a photographic lens that can be adjusted to control the amount of light passing through)

   Synonym: rekesz

blende f

1. plural of blenda