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basalt en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /bəˈsɔlt/ (General-American)
• /ˈbæs.ɑlt/ (cot-caught-merger)
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• /ˈbæs.ɔːlt/ (UK)
• (UK) audio
• /ˈbeɪˌsɔlt/ (General-American)
• /ˈbeɪˌsɑlt/ (cot-caught-merger)
• /ˈbæs.ɒlt/ (UK)
• /ˈbæs.ɔlt/ (General-American)
• /ˈbæs.əlt/ (UK)
• /bəˈsɑlt/ (cot-caught-merger)
• /ˈbæs.ɑlt/ (Canada)

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”), b-x:n-O39

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.
2. (countable, uncountable) A type of unglazed pottery.

Forms

Deriveds

picrobasalt · metabasaltic · basaltware · basaltiform · trachybasalt · basaltic · metabasalt · plateau basalt · pillow basalt · alkali basalt · nonbasalt · basaltoid · basaltine

Hypernyms

molten rock

Hyponyms

flood basalt

Translations (83)

pl bazalt (hard rock) · bg база́лт (hard rock) · eu basalto (hard rock) · uk база́льт (hard rock) · sk čadič (hard rock) · mi karā (hard rock) · km ភូរាល (hard rock) · ka ბაზალტი (hard rock) · mi ōnewa (hard rock) · sh ба̀залт (hard rock) · ro bazalt (hard rock) · hu bazalt (hard rock) · km ថ្មបាសាល (hard rock) · ky базальт (hard rock) · lv bazalts (hard rock) · kl agiamineq (hard rock) · it basalto (hard rock) · fo blágrýti (hard rock) · be база́льт (hard rock) · pt basalto (hard rock) · is blágrýti (hard rock) · vi ba-dan (hard rock) · el βασάλτης (hard rock) · mi pakawera (hard rock) · cy basalt (hard rock) · id basalt (hard rock) · nds basalt (hard rock) · tl batumbakal (hard rock) · eo bazalto (hard rock) · ar بَازَلْت (hard rock) · kl basalti (hard rock) · ga basalt (hard rock) · ru база́льт (hard rock) · kl agiaq (hard rock) · vi ba-zan (hard rock) · et basalt (hard rock) · nn basalt (hard rock) · fr basalte (hard rock) · kk базальт (hard rock) · fa بازالت (hard rock) · sl bazalt (hard rock) · gd basalt (hard rock) · az bazalt (hard rock) · tl basalto (hard rock) · su basalt (hard rock) · uz bazalt (hard rock) · sk bazalt (hard rock) · nan-hbl 玄武岩 (hard rock) · ca basalt (hard rock) · cs čedič (hard rock) · th บะซอลต์ (hard rock) · hy բազալտ (hard rock) · mk базалт (hard rock) · tg базалт (hard rock) · he בַּזֶּלֶת (hard rock) · is basalt (hard rock) · nl basalt (hard rock) · qu basaltu (hard rock) · sq bazalt (hard rock) · ko 현무암 (hard rock) · de Basalt (hard rock) · ja 玄武岩 (hard rock) · fo basalt (hard rock) · km បាសាល (hard rock) · da basalt (hard rock) · gl basalto (hard rock) · cmn 玄武岩 (hard rock) · tr bazalt (hard rock) · nb basalt (hard rock) · es basalto (hard rock) · th หินบะซอลต์ (hard rock) · io bazalto (hard rock) · an basalto (hard rock) · sh bàzalt (hard rock) · fi basaltti (hard rock) · sv basalt (hard rock) · hi बेसाल्ट (hard rock) · lt bazaltas (hard rock) · ms basalt (hard rock) · mr बसाल्ट खडक (hard rock) · yi באַזאַלט (hard rock) · ast basaltu (hard rock) · sgs bazalts (hard rock)