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Definition of schist noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

schist

noun
 
/ʃɪst/
 
/ʃɪst/
[uncountable]
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  1. a type of rock formed of layers of different minerals, that breaks naturally into thin flat pieces
    Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French schiste, via Latin from Greek skhistos ‘split’, from the base of skhizein ‘cleave’.
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