clastic
pronunciation
How to pronounce clastic in British English:
UK [ˌklæstɪk]
How to pronounce clastic in American English:
US [ˌklæstɪk]
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- Adjective:
- of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone)
- capable of being taken apart
Word Origin
- clastic (adj.)
- "consisting of broken pieces," 1875, in geology, from Latinized form of Greek klastos "broken in pieces," from klan, klaein "to break," from PIE *kla-, variant of root *kel- (1) "to strike" (see holt).
Example
- 1. He knocked at the door , a housewife opened the door , in before she could first words , in case direct sellers rushed in and will asperses full whole carpet clastic .
- 2. Ache is clastic enzyme at synaptic cleft hydrolyzed ethnol choline , which can hydrolyze effectively and quickly hydrolyze the ethnol choline at the nerve ending and coordinate the nerve excitation and inhibition .