English Dictionary

schist

IPA（発音記号）

/ʃɪst/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

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

日本語の意味

葉理が明瞭に発達した粗粒の結晶性変成岩。鉱物粒子が大きく、容易に薄板状やスレート状に割れる特性を持つ岩石です。

The mountain trail exposed layers of schist that glinted like mica in the sunlight.

山道に露出した片岩の層が日光に当たって雲母のようにきらめいていた。

意味（1）

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.

schists （ plural ）