Au-tŏm'o-līte, n.

n. [Gr. αὐτόμολος, going of one's self; as a noun, a deserter, from αὐτός, self, and μολεῖν, to go; so called from the large portion of oxide of zinc it contains, though it has no resemblance to an ore.] (Min.) A kind of spinel. See SPINEL.