Definition of "frit" [frit]

• The fused or partially fused materials used in making glass. (noun)
• A vitreous substance used in making porcelain, glazes, or enamels. (noun)
• To make into frit. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In modern French, the term frit is generally reserved for fried potatoes (pommes frites), while fritters are known as beignets."
• "A frit is a combination of a flux or several fluxes (lead, borax, boric acid, potassium carbonate) that is combined with other insoluble materials (quartz, feldspar, lime etc.), melted in a kiln to form an insoluble glass, and ground to be used as the base for making glazes."
• "The insulated glass has a silk-screened pattern -- called a frit or fritting -- that reduces solar glare and helps birds identify it as a solid object."