Ane

noun

1. One.
2. A suffix applied to the names of classes in the quantitative classification of igneous rocks. See rock.
3. Scotch and northern English form of one.
4. A suffix of Latin origin, the same as -an, as in mundane, ultramontane, etc.
5. In chem., a termination denoting that the hydrocarbon the name of which ends with it belongs to the paraffin series having the general formula CnH2n + 2: as, methane, CH4; ethane, C2H6.