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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lite/lʌɪt/
adjective
  • 1 denoting low-fat or low-sugar versions of food or drink products.
  • 2 informal denoting a simplified or less challenging version of something: Italian cuisine lite.
– origin 1950s: a deliberate respelling of light2.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-lite/lʌɪt/
suffix forming names of rocks, minerals, and fossils: rhyolite.
– origin from Fr., from Gk lithos ‘stone’.



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