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XENOLITH

Specialty Definition: XENOLITH

DomainDefinition

Geography

Foreign inclusion in an igneous rock. Source: European Union. (references)

Geological

A piece of foriegn rock enclosed within an igneous rock. The foriegn rock is usually picked up from the walls surrounding the igneous rock and is frozen in place before it has a chance to melt. (=inclusion). (references)

Mining

A foreign inclusion in an igneous rock. CF:autolith; xenocryst.Syn:inclusion; exogenous inclusion; accidental inclusion. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: XENOLITH

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Xenolith (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: XENOLITH

"XENOLITH" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "XENOLITH" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: XENOLITH

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

xenolith

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: XENOLITH

Language Translations for "XENOLITH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

exogene omsluiting (exogenetic inclusion, exogenous enclosure, exogenous inclusion). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sulkeuma (exogenetic inclusion, exogenous enclosure, exogenous inclusion, glassy inclusion, inclusion, inhomogeneity), satunnainen sulkeuma (exogenetic inclusion, exogenous enclosure, exogenous inclusion), ksenoliitti (exogenetic inclusion, exogenous enclosure, exogenous inclusion). (various references)

   

French

  

xénolite, enclave allotigène. (various references)

   

German

  

exogener Einschluß (exogenetic inclusion, exogenous enclosure, exogenous inclusion), Einschluß fremden Ursprungs (exogenetic inclusion, exogenous enclosure, exogenous inclusion). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξενόλιθοσ, ξενόλιθος (exogenetic inclusion, exogenous enclosure, exogenous inclusion), εξωγενές έγκλεισμα (exogenetic inclusion, exogenous enclosure, exogenous inclusion). (various references)

   

Italian

  

xenolite (exogenetic inclusion, exogenous enclosure, exogenous inclusion). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enolithxay

   

Portuguese

  

enclave exógeno (exogenetic inclusion, exogenous enclosure, exogenous inclusion). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ксенолит. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

xenolito alotígeno (exogenetic inclusion, exogenous enclosure, exogenous inclusion). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

xenolit (exogenetic inclusion, exogenous enclosure, exogenous inclusion). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ксеноліт. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: XENOLITH

Derivations

Words beginning with "XENOLITH": xenolithic, xenoliths. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: XENOLITH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-l-n-o-t-x"

-1 letter: hotline, neolith.

-2 letters: entoil, eolith, ethion, toxine.

-3 letters: elint, eloin, extol, helio, helix, helot, hotel, inlet, ixtle, lento, lithe, litho, olein, teloi, thein, thine, thiol, thole, toile, toxin.

-4 letters: elhi, enol, exit, exon, heil, helo, hent, hilt, hint, hole, holt, hone, ilex, into, leno, lent, lien, line, lino, lint, lion, lite, loin, lone, loth.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-l-n-o-t-x"
 

+1 letter: xenoliths.

 

+2 letters: exhalation, xenolithic.

 

+3 letters: exhalations, hematoxylin, phytoalexin.

 

+4 letters: exhilaration, hematoxylins, phytoalexins.

 

+5 letters: exhilarations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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