ALL meanings of schist
schist
S s - noun schist any of a class of crystalline metamorphic rocks whose constituent mineral grains have a more or less parallel or foliated arrangement. 1
- noun schist type of rock 1
- noun schist any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers because its micaceous minerals have become aligned in thin parallel bands 0
- noun schist any of a group of metamorphic rocks containing parallel layers of flaky minerals, as mica or talc, and splitting easily into thin, parallel leaves 0