Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dyke-rock

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English

Syllables: dyke-rock
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of igneous rock that fills a dyke (a rock filling a fissure that is now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away).

Example Sentences

"Appears to be a fine-grained dioritic dyke rock, but is too dirty and stained to be satisfactorily examined."
"If the dyke is of great thickness the centre may be coarsely crystalline as a deep-seated plutonic rock and this makes it difficult to distinguish a dyke rock in hand specimen."
"As a dyke is made of igneous rock, it is usually possible to date it by radiometric dating methods, which give an absolute age for the dyke rock."

Inflected Forms

dyke-rocks (plural)

Questions

What does dyke-rock mean?: A type of igneous rock that fills a dyke (a rock filling a fissure that is now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away).

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