of or pertaining to the texture of a porphyry whose groundmass consists of microlites in a glassy matrix
Word origin
[1875–80; microlite + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1875–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cross-fertilization, graph, pressure point, slime mold, weekend-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'microlitic' in a sentence
microlitic
Anhydrite beds show the following textures: microlitic, spherolite, porphyroblast, and granular.
Bahman Soleimani, Amir Sasan Zarvani 2010, 'Lithological and petrophysical evaluation of the caprock keybeds, Asmari Reservoirof Pazanan Oil Field, Zagros, Iran', Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST)http://www.rdoapp.psu.ac.th/html/sjst/journal/31-6/0125-3395-31-6-655-660.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)