Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dyke phase

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English

Syllables: dyke phase
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The period or event during which a dyke (a body of rock originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away) is formed.

Example Sentences

"and I have failed to detect those similarities between the sill and dyke phase of the same magma, which may reasonably be expected on such a view."
"One of the most striking features of this igneous cycle is the remarkably well-developed dyke-phase, which in general followed, though to some extent it overlapped, the plutonic phase."
"The rocks of dyke phase include viz. microgranite, rhyolite, trachyandesite, trachydacite in Siwana"

Inflected Forms

dyke phases (plural) dyke-phase (alternative)

Questions

What does dyke phase mean?: The period or event during which a dyke (a body of rock originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away) is formed.

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