schist

n. 片岩

发音

/ʃɪst/

词形变化

schists 复数 schists

别名

shist

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.

    页岩

    泥板岩

    片岩

    可数 不可数

    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.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

metamorphic rock

相关短语

quartz schist alum schist [化] 明矾页岩 green schist [岩] 绿片岩 mica schist

词源

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”).

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