myloniten.

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪlənʌɪt/,

/ˈmɪlənʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪləˌnaɪt/

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek μυλών , -ite suffix¹.

Etymology: < ancient Greek μυλών mill-house, mill ( < μύλη , μύλος mill, millstone (see meal n.¹) + -ών, suffix forming nouns) + -ite suffix¹.Coined by C. Lapworth (see quot. 1885). N.E.D. (1908) gives only the pronunciation (məi·lŏnəit) /ˈmaɪlənaɪt/.

Geology.

A schist, esp. a banded one, resulting from the grinding or crushing of rocks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > schist > varieties of

hammochrysos1706

hornslate1791

hornblende slate1794

horn porphyry1794

horn-schist1799

mica-slate1809

green schist1817

hornblende schist1821

kinzigite1878

phyllite1878

spilosite1882

mylonite1885

1885 C. Lapworth in Nature 8 Oct. 559/1 The gneisses and pegmatites..are crushed, dragged, and ground out into a finely-laminated schist (Mylonite, Gr. mylon, a mill).

1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) x. 236 Mylonites are granulated at such depths that they do not lose coherence as breccias do.

1965 Economist 10 July 157/2 This was merely a curtain raiser to..the 165 days spent digging out a 788-ft zone of crumbling mylonite by hand.

1991 New Scientist 13 Apr. 26/3 Mylonites are tough, banded, fine-grained rocks that geologists had associated with fault zones for more than a hundred years.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mylonite
释义	myloniten. Brit. /ˈmʌɪlənʌɪt/, /ˈmɪlənʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈmaɪləˌnaɪt/ Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek μυλών , -ite suffix¹. Etymology: < ancient Greek μυλών mill-house, mill ( < μύλη , μύλος mill, millstone (see meal n.¹) + -ών, suffix forming nouns) + -ite suffix¹.Coined by C. Lapworth (see quot. 1885). N.E.D. (1908) gives only the pronunciation (məi·lŏnəit) /ˈmaɪlənaɪt/. Geology. A schist, esp. a banded one, resulting from the grinding or crushing of rocks. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > schist > varieties of hammochrysos1706 hornslate1791 hornblende slate1794 horn porphyry1794 horn-schist1799 mica-slate1809 green schist1817 hornblende schist1821 kinzigite1878 phyllite1878 spilosite1882 mylonite1885 1885 C. Lapworth in Nature 8 Oct. 559/1 The gneisses and pegmatites..are crushed, dragged, and ground out into a finely-laminated schist (Mylonite, Gr. mylon, a mill). 1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) x. 236 Mylonites are granulated at such depths that they do not lose coherence as breccias do. 1965 Economist 10 July 157/2 This was merely a curtain raiser to..the 165 days spent digging out a 788-ft zone of crumbling mylonite by hand. 1991 New Scientist 13 Apr. 26/3 Mylonites are tough, banded, fine-grained rocks that geologists had associated with fault zones for more than a hundred years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1885
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