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CLASTIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of being taken apart
Example:
the professor had a clastic model of the human brain
Classified under:
Similar:
detachable (designed to be unfastened or disconnected without damage)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone)
Classified under:
Similar:
disintegrative (tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
Derivation:
clast ((geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock)
clastic rock ((geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks)
