schist en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ʃɪst/
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Etymology
From French schiste, from Latin schistos lapis (“the stone that is easy to split”), from Ancient Greek σχιστός (skhistós, “splittable”), from σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
Although it shows under the microscope traces of the original gabbro structure and of the original gabbro minerals, no one would hesitate from a microscopical examination to class it with the schists.
1890, George Huntington Williams, “The Greenstone Schist Areas of the Menominee and Marquette Regions of Michigan”, in US Geological Survey, number 62, page 74:Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.
2012, Amy Schoeman, Skeleton Coast, page ii:1915, Charles Will Wright, Geology and Ore Deposits of Copper Mountain and Kasaan Peninsula, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 87, page 29, Narrow bands of schist are interstratified with these limestones, and in turn narrow beds of limestone are interstratified with the schists.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| schists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
quartz schist · green schist · whiteschist · grayschist · greenschist · blueschist · alum schist
Relateds
mica-schist · schisty · schistose · gneiss · schistic · schistosity · schistous · schistaceous
Translations (34)
cmn 頁岩 /页岩 (crystalline foliated rock) · de Glaukophanschiefer (crystalline foliated rock) · id sekis (crystalline foliated rock) · ca esquist (crystalline foliated rock) · pt xisto (crystalline foliated rock) · de Grünschiefer (crystalline foliated rock) · de Glimmerschiefer (crystalline foliated rock) · ru сла́нец (crystalline foliated rock) · io skisto (crystalline foliated rock) · eo skisto (crystalline foliated rock) · nn skifer (crystalline foliated rock) · sl škriljevec (crystalline foliated rock) · ms syis (crystalline foliated rock) · sh šist (crystalline foliated rock) · mk шкри́лец (crystalline foliated rock) · cmn 泥板岩 (crystalline foliated rock) · fr schiste (crystalline foliated rock) · nb skifer (crystalline foliated rock) · mi kurupaku (crystalline foliated rock) · gl xisto (crystalline foliated rock) · hu csillámpala (crystalline foliated rock) · it scisto (crystalline foliated rock) · es esquisto (crystalline foliated rock) · ja 片岩 (crystalline foliated rock) · de Blauschiefer (crystalline foliated rock) · bg шиста (crystalline foliated rock) · de Graphitschiefer (crystalline foliated rock) · izh slantsa (crystalline foliated rock) · fi liuske (crystalline foliated rock) · hu kristályos pala (crystalline foliated rock) · cmn 片岩 (crystalline foliated rock) · nl schist (crystalline foliated rock) · de kristalliner Schiefer (crystalline foliated rock) · sv glimmerskiffer (crystalline foliated rock)