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| Domain | Definition |
Geological | An igneous rock texture produced from consolidation of fragmented volcanic material ejected during a violent eruption. Also used to describe ash, bombs and other material forcefully ejected during a volcanic eruption (=tephra). (references) |
| Pertaining to fragmented (clastic) rock material formed by a volcanic explosion or ejection from a volcanic vent. (Foxworthy and Hill, 1982). (references) | |
Mining | Produced by explosive or aerial ejection of ash, fragments, and glassy material from a volcanic vent. Applied to the rocks and rock layers aswell as to the textures so formed. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PYROCLASTIC |
| Specialty definitions using "PYROCLASTIC": Ash cloud, Ash flow ♦ Composite volcano ♦ Debris avalanche ♦ Ejecta, explosion tuf ♦ ignimbrite ♦ Nuees Ardente ♦ pisolitic tuff, Pyroclastic flow, Pyroclastic surge ♦ reticulite, rhyolitic welded tuff ♦ stratovolcano ♦ tuff breccia, tuffite ♦ volcanics ♦ welded tuff. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Travel | Ecuador | The resulting pyroclastic flows would pose a significant and immediate threat to Banos and several small villages in the vicinity. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PYROCLASTIC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PYROCLASTIC" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PYROCLASTIC": pyroclastic tuff. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flow pyroclastic | 12 |
pyroclastic | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PYROCLASTIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vulkansk tuf (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff), vulkansk støv (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff), tuf (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tufa, tuff, volcanic tuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vulkanische tuf (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff), tufsteen (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vulkaaninen tuffi (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff), tuffi (ash layer, cinerite, dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, vitric tuff, volcanic tuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pyroclastique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vulkantuff (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff), vulkanischer Tuff (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff), vulkanischer Staub (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff), Tuffstaub (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff), Tuff (Tuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηφαιστειακός τόφος (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tufo vulcanico (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff), tufo (tufa, Tuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 火災流 (pyroclastic flow, stone wind), 火 流 (pyroclastic flow, stone wind), 火 岩 (pyroclastic rock), 火山 屑物 (pyroclastic material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かざ"さいせつぶつ (pyroclastic material), かさいが" (pyroclastic rock), かさいりゅう (pyroclastic flow, stone wind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yroclasticpay tufo vulcânico (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff). (various references) toba volcánica (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff). (various references) pyroklastisk bergart (dust tuff, pyroclastic tuff, tuff, volcanic tuff), tuff (ballsy, hard-nosed, smart, tough, tufa, Tuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-l-o-p-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: cystocarp, piscatory. | |
-3 letters: acrostic, acrylics, apricots, calorics, caltrops, capitols, coalpits, copycats, cortical, coscript, isocracy, piscator, polarity, royalist, scarcity, solitary, spiccato, sportily, tropical. | |
-4 letters: acrotic, acrylic, airpost, apostil, apricot, aprotic, arctics, calicos, caloric, caltrop, calypso, capitol, captors, citolas, citrals, clarity, clastic, coalpit, copycat, copyist, crisply, cryptal, cryptic, cryptos, crystal, cyclist, cyclops, lictors, opacity, optical. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-l-o-p-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: prostacyclin. | |
+2 letters: chalcopyrites, prophylactics, prostacyclins. | |
+3 letters: hypocoristical. | |
+5 letters: catastrophically, crystallographic, hypocoristically, psychohistorical, psychometrically, stereoscopically, stroboscopically. | |
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