English words for 'The study of magma'
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noun
- Hardened volcanic lava.
- (in the plural) Fetters.
- An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
- A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
- Someone or something that clinks.
- A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
- Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
- A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
- (nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
- a hard brick used as a paving stone
- a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
verb
noun
adj
- relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes
- Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
- Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes.
- (figurative) Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.
- Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies.
- explosively unstable
- igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt
noun
- (geology) The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
- (biology) The process by which the components of multicellular life (cells, organs, etc.) are produced and acquire function, as when a seed develops the root and stem, and the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds.
- (biology, evolution) The evolutionary process by which one taxonomic group (species, genus, variety, etc.) becomes distinct from another, or acquires distinct features; the result of such a process: distinctness.
- The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of applying the derivative operator to a function; of calculating a function's derivative.
- The process of developing distinct components.
- the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function
- (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function
- a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes
noun
- molten rock in the earth's crust
- (geology) A mixture of molten silicate rock, crystals, and gas within the earth, which may be erupted as lava or cool in place to form igneous intrusions.
- The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.
- Any soft doughy mass.
- (mathematics) A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
adj
noun
- The eruption of molten lava from a volcanic vent.
- The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
- the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urine
- (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)
- an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation
noun
noun
- (geology) A mass of large volcanic fragments bonded under heat.
- (geography) An extended city area comprising the built-up area of a central city and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area.
- The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
- State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
- the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating
- a jumbled collection or mass
noun
- (uncountable, geology) The regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks.
- (philosophy, theology, historical) Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul.
- (uncountable, also figuratively) Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.
- The recurrence of historical events in the same order in an infinite series of cycles.
- emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
noun
- rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanoes; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface
- The molten rock ejected by a volcano from a vent such as a crater or fissure; magma that has breached the surface of the earth.
- (informal, proscribed) Magma.
- A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava.
noun
- a mountain formed by volcanic material
- a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
- A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.
- A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- (geology) A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
- (architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.
- The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
- (anatomy) The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
- (informal, MLE, slang) A falsehood; a lie.
- (engineering) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
- A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
- (slang) Fellatio
- (botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
- The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
- (now historical) A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.
- (music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
- The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
- (figurative) A person's life.
- (folklore) A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.
- (firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
- The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
- a cut of meat from the neck of an animal
- a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form
- an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck
- a narrow elongated projecting strip of land
- the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body
verb
noun
- Hardened volcanic lava.
- (in the plural) Fetters.
- An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
- A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
- Someone or something that clinks.
- A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
- Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
- A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
- (nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
- a hard brick used as a paving stone
- a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
verb
noun
adj
- relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes
- Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
- Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes.
- (figurative) Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.
- Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies.
- explosively unstable
- igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt
noun
- (geology) The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
- (biology) The process by which the components of multicellular life (cells, organs, etc.) are produced and acquire function, as when a seed develops the root and stem, and the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds.
- (biology, evolution) The evolutionary process by which one taxonomic group (species, genus, variety, etc.) becomes distinct from another, or acquires distinct features; the result of such a process: distinctness.
- The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of applying the derivative operator to a function; of calculating a function's derivative.
- The process of developing distinct components.
- the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function
- (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function
- a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes
noun
- molten rock in the earth's crust
- (geology) A mixture of molten silicate rock, crystals, and gas within the earth, which may be erupted as lava or cool in place to form igneous intrusions.
- The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.
- Any soft doughy mass.
- (mathematics) A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
noun
- The eruption of molten lava from a volcanic vent.
- The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
- the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urine
- (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)
- an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation
noun
noun
- (geology) A mass of large volcanic fragments bonded under heat.
- (geography) An extended city area comprising the built-up area of a central city and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area.
- The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
- State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
- the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating
- a jumbled collection or mass
noun
- (uncountable, geology) The regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks.
- (philosophy, theology, historical) Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul.
- (uncountable, also figuratively) Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.
- The recurrence of historical events in the same order in an infinite series of cycles.
- emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
noun
- rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanoes; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface
- The molten rock ejected by a volcano from a vent such as a crater or fissure; magma that has breached the surface of the earth.
- (informal, proscribed) Magma.
- A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava.
noun
- a mountain formed by volcanic material
- a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
- A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.
- A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- (geology) A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
- (architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.
- The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
- (anatomy) The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
- (informal, MLE, slang) A falsehood; a lie.
- (engineering) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
- A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
- (slang) Fellatio
- (botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
- The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
- (now historical) A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.
- (music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
- The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
- (figurative) A person's life.
- (folklore) A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.
- (firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
- The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
- a cut of meat from the neck of an animal
- a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form
- an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck
- a narrow elongated projecting strip of land
- the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body
verb
adj
noun
adj
- relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes
- Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
- Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes.
- (figurative) Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.
- Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies.
- explosively unstable
- igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt