Min. [mod. f. (by Haüy) Gr. ἀφαν-ής unmanifest + -ITE.] A compact dark-colored hornblende rock, so uniform in texture that it shows no distinct grains (whence its name), and breaks with a smooth flint-like fracture; also called Corneine.
1862. Dana, Man. Geol., 79. Aphanite consists mainly of hornblende with some feldspar…. It has been called hornrock.
1883. N. Joly, Man bef. Metals, 1. vii. 167. They contain weapons of unpolished aphanite, a species of greenstone.
