schist
/ʃɪst/
schist noun: any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
Noun
schist (countable and uncountable, plural schists)
- 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
- Narrow bands of schist are interstratified with these limestones, and in turn narrow beds of limestone are interstratified with the schists.1915, Charles Will Wright, Geology and Ore Deposits of Copper Mountain and Kasaan Peninsula, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 87, page 29
schist meaning in Tamil, Malay and Indonesian
schist in Tamil
- இளகல் தீப்பாறை, களி உருமாற்றப்பாறை, தகடாகுபாறை
schist in Malay
- crystalline foliated rock
- syis
schist in Indonesian
- crystalline foliated rock
- sekis
Forms of schist
| plural | schists |
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Origin of schist
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”).
Words formed from schist
Phrases with schist
Words that rhyme with schist
43 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- frist
- insist
- Liszt
- piste
- tryst
- agist
- consist
- dismissed
- encyst
- hist
- pissed
- sist
- tier list
- trist
- whist
- wrist
- absist
- atwist
- bist
- cist
- coexist
- contrist
- cyst
- delist
- demist
- desist
- dissed
- dream list
- exist
- fair list
- get one's knickers in a twist
- glissed
- hissed
- is't
- ist
- kissed
- missed
- rankist
- triste
- unlist
- ventriloquist
- wist
- xyst
Questions about schist
- What does schist mean?
- Schist means any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
- What is schist in Tamil?
- Schist in Tamil is இளகல் தீப்பாறை, களி உருமாற்றப்பாறை, தகடாகுபாறை. See Schist meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is schist?
- Schist is a noun.
- How do you pronounce schist?
- Schist is pronounced /ʃɪst/.
- What is the plural of schist?
- The plural of schist is schists.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: schist (page history and authors); schist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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