migmatite

English

Etymology

From Swedish migmatit, from Ancient Greek μίγμα (mígma, “mixture”) + Swedish -it (“-ite”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɪɡmətʌɪt/

Noun

migmatite (plural migmatites)

1. (geology) Any rock of mixed appearance, being an intimate mixture of granite and older rock, specifically from intense metamorphism which partially melts the rock, causing it to recrystallize in a state intermediate between igneous and metamorphic.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 163:

     More specifically, many of these rocks are described as migmatites, in which the pink veins seem to blend insensibly into a kind of swirling granite.

Translations

Intimate mixture of granite and older rock

• Esperanto: migmatito
• Finnish: seoskivi, migmatiitti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: migmatitt m

  Nynorsk: migmatitt m

• Romanian: migmatit (ro) n

French

Noun

migmatite f (plural migmatites)

1. migmatite

Further reading

• “migmatite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.