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AnaclasticAnaclastic An`a*clas"tic, a. [Gr. ? to bend back and break; to
reflect (light); ? + ? to break.]
1. (Opt.) Produced by the refraction of light, as seen
through water; as, anaclastic curves.
2. Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass.
Anaclastic glass, a glass or phial, shaped like an inverted
funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out
a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with
a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the
orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its
former convex form. Anaclastic glassAnaclastic An`a*clas"tic, a. [Gr. ? to bend back and break; to
reflect (light); ? + ? to break.]
1. (Opt.) Produced by the refraction of light, as seen
through water; as, anaclastic curves.
2. Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass.
Anaclastic glass, a glass or phial, shaped like an inverted
funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out
a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with
a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the
orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its
former convex form. AnaclasticsAnaclastics An`a*clas"tics, n. (Opt.)
That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light;
-- commonly called dioptrics. --Encyc. Brit. Anticlastic
Anticlastic An`ti*clas"tic, a. [Pref. anti- = Gr. ? to break.]
Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally
in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction,
as the surface of a saddle.
AutoclasticAutoclastic Au`to*clas"tic, a. [See Auto-; Clastic.]
(Geol.)
Broken in place; -- said of rocks having a broken or
brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of
brecciated materials brought from a distance. Clastic
Clastic Clas"tic, a. [Gr. ? br?, fr. ? to break.]
1. Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy
(of models).
2. (Min.) Fragmental; made up of brok? fragments; as,
sandstone is a clastic rock.
Cranioclast
Cranioclast Cra"ni*o*clast (-kl?st), n. (Med.)
An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate
delivery in difficult eases.
Disdiaclast
Disdiaclast Dis*di"a*clast, n. [Gr. di`s- twice + ? to break
in twain; dia` through + ? to break.] (Physiol.)
One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks
of muscle fibers.
Iconoclastic
Iconoclastic I*con`o*clas"tic, a.
Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking.
--Milman.
Idoloclast
Idoloclast I*dol"o*clast, n. [Gr. ? idol + ? to break.]
A breaker of idols; an iconoclast.
Lithoclast
Lithoclast Lith"o*clast (l[i^]th"[-o]*kl[a^]st), n. [Litho- +
Gr. kla^n to break.] (Surg.)
An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.
Orthoclastic
Orthoclastic Or`tho*clas"tic, a. (Crystallog.)
Breaking in directions at right angles to each other; -- said
of the monoclinic feldspars.
Osteoclast
Osteoclast Os"te*o*clast, n. [Osteo- + Gr. ? to break.]
1. (Physiol.) A myeloplax.
Note: The osteoclasts occur usually in pits or cavities which
they appear to have excavated, and are supposed to be
concerned in the absorption of the bone matrix.
2. An instrument for performing osteoclasis.
Synclastic
Synclastic Syn*clas"tic, a. [Pref. syn- + Gr. kla^n to break.]
(Math. Physics)
Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of
surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away
from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of
a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic. --Sir W. Thomson.
Meaning of Clast from wikipedia
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Clastic rocks are
composed of fragments, or
clasts, of pre-existing
minerals and rock. A
clast is a
fragment of
geological detritus, chunks, and smaller...
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within conglomerate are
called clasts,
while the
finer sediment surrounding the
clasts is
called the matrix. The
clasts and
matrix are
typically cemented...
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uplifting Catalan Coastal Ranges to the
southeast of the
basin and the
clast type is
dominated by Tri****ic
sedimentary rocks. The fan had an original...
- Rip-up
clasts are gravel-size
pieces of clay or mud
created when an
erosive current flows over a bed of clay or mud and
removes pieces of
clayey sediment...
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individual grains or
clasts that make up the rock.
Sedimentary textures include the
degree of sorting, grading,
shape and
roundness of the
clasts. Metamorphic...
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sedimentary rocks are
composed of rock
fragments (
clasts) that have been
cemented together. The
clasts are
commonly individual grains of quartz, feldspar...
- is bimodal) with
pebbles predominating in the co****r peak. The
larger clasts (rock fragments) in till
typically show a
diverse composition,
often including...
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Micritisation is the
activity of
certain organisms in the
clasts of
carbonate sediments,
whereby the
organisms retract nutrients from the carbonate. Micritisation...
- rock
through weathering and erosion. A
fragment of
detritus is
called a
clast.
Detrital particles can
consist of
lithic fragments (particles of recognisable...
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years old,
which were
found in a
clast of
bitumen from a
glacial diamictite. The
copepods present in the
bitumen clast were
likely residents of a subglacial...
