regmaglypt

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A small, shallow indentation or pit on the surface of a meteorite, resembling a thumbprint impression in clay, created by ablation while falling in an atmosphere.

/ˈɹɛɡ.mə.ɡlɪpt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-regmaglypt.wav /ˈɹɛɡ.mə.ɡlipt/

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From Ancient Greek ῥῆγμα (rhêgma, “something broken or rent asunder; a breach, cleft, fracture”), + γλυπτόν (gluptón, “carving, sculpture”).

pezograph piezoglypt

regma regmacarp regmatic rhegma rhegmal rhegmatic rhegmatogenic rhegmatogenous

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