Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Containing or relating to a group of dark-colored minerals, composed chiefly of magnesium and iron, that occur in igneous rocks.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Blend of magnesium and ferric. (Wiktionary)
- ma(gnesium) + Latin f(errum), iron + -ic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The first type of vents occur throughout the world's mid-ocean ridges and are hosted by rocks that are rich in magnesium and iron -- called mafic rocks.”
“As we collect and analyze this data, we try to identify certain aspects as belonging to a class of minerals, such as clays, sulfate or mafic silicates.”
“Some small areas of mafic and ultramafic rocks also occur, producing more basic soils.”
“This subsection contains mainly Mesozoic granitic and mafic plutonic rocks, Jura-Triassic volcanic rocks, Pre-Cretaceous metamorphic rocks, and Eocene and Oligocene marine and nonmarine and Miocene marine sedimentary rocks.”
“On mafic plutonic rocks, they are mostly Mollic and Typic Haploxeralfs and Typic Rhodoxeralfs.”
“Best Sites for Diving and Snorkelling [UK Times] · Snorkeling coverage [Jaunted] [Photo: mafic]”
“The oceanic crust, which contains more mafic minerals is thinner and denser than the continental crust which contains minerals richer in silicon and aluminum.”
“The mantle is dominated by magnesium and iron-rich (mafic) minerals.”
“Some mafic and ultramafic rocks also occur here, producing more basic soils.”
“This is evidenced by a wide variety of mafic and ultramafic rocks.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mafic’.
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Pet Rocks and Carbon Footprints
Soil samples for stone soup.
palynology, stratigraphy, tse'bit'ai, tse bitai, tse bit ai, bitai, minette, maar, lithosphere, peridotite, gneiss, gabbro and 115 more...
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Allographic Homophones
Words that can be pronounced identically but are spelled differently. I've started with unusual or extensive sets. In some of these sets, no one speaker would pronounce them all the same. I've trie...
air, are, ayr, ayre, e'er, ere, err, eyre, heir, apatite, appetite, picnic and 226 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
metamerism, malady, margin, marauder, maverick, mercury, mirth, mandible, macerate, meteor, manumission, mica and 292 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Geology
baraboo, monadnock, peneplain, endrumpf, peneplanation, cairngorm, paleooology, stream capture, allochthon, slickensides, graywacke, tectonics and 56 more...
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my favorite geology terms
(i'm a rock nerd, so what? :P)
dodecahedron, schist, gneiss, rhombic, conchoidal, metamorphose, loam, shale, sphalerite, apatite, orbital harmony, carboniferous and 26 more...
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en_dash's Words
scruple, taxonomy, ethereal, balaclava, oscilloscope, porphyry, arrogate, bosun, quay, copacetic, appoggiatura, lampblack and 66 more...
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Geology
Rocks, soil, and similar obscurity.
interstadial, lithosphere, tectonics, athenosphere, rayleigh waves, igneous, laterite, mafic
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