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Meaning of "laccolithic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LACCOLITHIC

laccolithic  [ˌlækəˈlɪtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LACCOLITHIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Laccolithic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LACCOLITHIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of laccolithic in the English dictionary

The definition of laccolithic in the dictionary is of or relating to a dome-shaped body of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock: formed by the intrusion of magma, forcing the overlying strata into the shape of a dome.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LACCOLITHIC


aerolitic
ˌɛərəˈlɪtɪk
analytic
ˌænəˈlɪtɪk
autocatalytic
ˌɔːtəʊˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
autolytic
ˌɔːtəˈlɪtɪk
biocatalytic
ˌbaɪəʊˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
catalytic
ˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
cytolytic
ˌsaɪtəˈlɪtɪk
endonucleolytic
ˌɛndəʊˌnjuːklɪəˈlɪtɪk
Glagolitic
ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk
hydrolytic
ˌhaɪdrəˈlɪtɪk
oncolytic
ˌɒŋkəˈlɪtɪk
paralytic
ˌpærəˈlɪtɪk
photocatalytic
ˌfəʊtəʊˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
proteolytic
ˌprəʊtɪəˈlɪtɪk
psychoanalytic
ˌsaɪkəʊænəˈlɪtɪk
rhyolitic
ˌraɪəˈlɪtɪk
spasmolytic
ˌspæzməˈlɪtɪk
thrombolytic
ˌθrɒmbəˈlɪtɪk
zeolitic
ˌziːəˈlɪtɪk
zoolitic
ˌzəʊəˈlɪtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LACCOLITHIC

lac
lac insect
Lacan
Lacanian
Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands
laccolite
laccolith
laccolitic
lace
lace bug
lace into
lace up
lace-up
lace-up shoes
lacebark
Lacedaemon
Lacedaemonian
laceless
lacelike
lacemaker

WORDS THAT END LIKE LACCOLITHIC

bathylithic
chalcolithic
endolithic
Eolithic
epilithic
Gothic
granolithic
heliolithic
lithic
megalithic
Mesolithic
microlithic
Middle Palaeolithic
monolithic
Neolithic
otolithic
Palaeolithic
paleolithic
protolithic
trilithic
Upper Palaeolithic

Synonyms and antonyms of laccolithic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «laccolithic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LACCOLITHIC

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The translations of laccolithic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «laccolithic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

laccolithic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

laccolithic
570 millions of speakers

English

laccolithic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

laccolithic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

laccolithic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

laccolithic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

laccolithic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

laccolithic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

laccolithiques
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Laccolithic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

laccolithic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

laccolithic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

laccolithic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Laccolithic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

laccolithic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

laccolithic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लॅक्कोलिथिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

laccolithic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

laccolithic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

laccolithic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

laccolithic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

laccolithic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

laccolithic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

laccolithic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

laccolithic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

laccolithic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of laccolithic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LACCOLITHIC»

The term «laccolithic» is barely ever used and occupies the 200.947 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LACCOLITHIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «laccolithic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «laccolithic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about laccolithic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LACCOLITHIC»

Discover the use of laccolithic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to laccolithic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Geological Survey Professional Paper
These laccolithic intrusions are not evenly distributed through this upper zone but are concentrated at the three competent sandstone units — the Emery, the Fer- ron, and a sandstone at the top of the Morrison — that separate the thick ...
2
United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
This would seem to be a laccolithic intrusion in the gently inclined Cretaceous strata. The beds on the east side appear to dip under it, and it seems to have been covered by those on the west side. Several smaller rounded laccolithic masses ...
‎1905
3
Geology of the Marysville mining district, Montana: a study ...
CONCLUSIONS ON LACK OF LACCOLITHIC NATURE. For the intrusion to be of a laccolithic nature, even of so irregular a form as Brogger has maintained for the Christiana region, the surface of splitting by which the cover would have been ...
Joseph Barrell, 1907
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Professional Paper - United States Geological Survey
To the east of this laccolithic mass true sills extend from both the upper and lower portions of the bedding, and one of these has been traced continuously to and beyond Midas Creek. In brief, this body is an irregular laccolith which breaks ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1905
5
Laccolith complexes of southeastern Utah: time of ...
Colorado Plateau laccolithic centers — Continued. La Sal Calc-alkaline to mildly alkaline diorite Mountains, porphyry occurs in three laccolithic Utah centers at North, Middle, and South Mountains. Each center has a central stock, several ...
Jules D. Friedman, A. C. Huffman, 1997
6
The Fourth Hutton Symposium on the Origin of Granites and ...
Also in centrifuged experiments, but using a very low-viscosity solution as the analogue magma and a crustal analogue of painter's putty, very thin laccolithic intrusions were formed, parallel to a presumed fabric anisotropy within the putty ...
Bernard Barbarin, W. E. Stephens, 2001
7
Laccoliths: Mechanics of Emplacement and Growth
Additional names for foccofr'thr'c intrusions Other descriptive terms for laccolithic intrusions, and variants thereof, incl udc: akmolith, bysmalith (Fig. 5), cactolith, duclolith, ethmolith, harpolith, phacolith (Fig 6), sphenolith, trap door, and ...
Charles E. Corry, 1988
8
Geology and Mineral Resources of the Ivanpah Quadrangle, ...
The rocks at the laccolithic mountains and large central- type volcanoes are similar porphyries. The chemical average of these basalt and alkalic basalt series is less basic than would appear at first, because considerable quantities of rhyolitic ...
Donnel Foster Hewett, 1956
9
Ore deposits of Utah
... rocks, where they formed the contact deposits. On the assumption that the ore solutions have resulted from a differentiation of the magma within the laccolithic reservoirs, certain deductions concerning the probable size and abundance of ...
Bert Sylvenus Butler, Gerald Francis Loughlin, Victor Conrad Heikes, 1920
10
Understanding Granites: Integrating New and Classical Techniques
Many granitoid plutons that are emplaced at rather shallow crustal levels are commonly laccolithic or tabular in shape with horizontal dimension far in excess of vertical thickness (Clemens & Mawer 1992). Several experimental studies of ...
Jean Louis Vigneresse, 1999

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LACCOLITHIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term laccolithic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jay Meehan: The bourbon-caramel-gingersnap acid test
Whether or not the phenomenon is due to the laccolithic quality of the mountain ranges in question is up for speculation. With only five such ... «Park Record, May 14»
2
Tigris Uranium and Wolfpack Gold Announce Reverse Takeover …
Rhyolite dikes and possibly laccolithic dome features intrude the section. Hydrothermal alteration in the volcanic rock is focused on structures ... «PR Newswire, Dec 12»

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