Schist Definition

shĭst
schists
noun
Any of a group of metamorphic rocks containing parallel layers of flaky minerals, as mica or talc, and splitting easily into thin, parallel leaves.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Schist

Noun

Singular:
schist
Plural:
schists

Origin of Schist

  • French schiste from Latin (lapis) schistos fissile (stone), a kind of iron ore from Greek skhistos split, divisible from skhizein to split skei- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From L schistos lapis, "the stone that is easy to split", from Greek skhizein, "to split".

    From Wiktionary

Schist Sentence Examples

  • Archean rocks - gneiss, schist and granite - cover large areas through which the Nile cuts its way in alternate narrow gorges and open reaches.

  • A quartz schist, suitable for making whetstones and oilstones, was discovered in 1823 by Isaac Pike at Pike Station, Grafton county, and the Pike Manufacturing Company now owns and operates quarries outside this state also; in 1907 New Hampshire was the principal producer of scythe-stones in the United States, and the total value of whetstones made in 1907 (including the value of precious stones') was $59,870.

  • The oldest rocks of Elba consist of schist and serpentine which in the eastern part of the island are overlaid by beds containing Silurian and Devonian fossils.

  • It is not volcanic, but consists of argillaceous schist and quartzite.

  • They consist chiefly of gneiss and schist, with granite and other eruptive rocks.

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Words Starting With

SSCSCH

Words Ending With

TSTIST

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