单词 | rheomorphic |
释义 | rheomorphicadj. 1. Biology. Relating to the anatomical shape of an organism and its orientation in response to the direction of a current of water. rare. ΚΠ 1935 Ecology 16 35 Fishes freely suspended in water head into a flow of water for rheomorphic reasons. 2. Geology. Of, relating to, or exhibiting rheomorphism or the result of this process. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > metamorphism > [adjective] > magmatism rheomorphic1937 palingenetic1942 1937 Proc. Geologists' Assoc. 48 275 The quartz-felspar intergrowths of the rheomorphic veins are less perfectly micropegmatitic. 1962 E. A. Vincent tr. A. Rittmann Volcanoes vi. 199 Migmatitic granites thus frequently show very well marked rheomorphic structures on solidification. 2002 W. Gibbons & T. Moreno Geol. Spain xviii. 448/2 The presence of ‘fiamme’ and rheomorphic folds suggests boiling-over type eruptive mechanisms during expulsion of high temperature ignimbrites. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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