Crossword clues for lithic
lithic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lithic \Lith"ic\ (l[i^]th"[i^]k), a. [Gr. liqiko`s of or belonging to stones, fr. li`qos stone: cf. F. lithique.]
Of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture.
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(Med.) Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis.
Lithic acid (Old Med. Chem.), uric acid. See Uric acid, under Uric.
Lithic \Lith"ic\, n. (Med.) A medicine which tends to prevent stone in the bladder.
Lithic \Lith"ic\, a. [From Lithium.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to or denoting lithium or some of its compounds.
--Frankland.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1797, from Greek lithikos "of or pertaining to stone," from lithos "stone" (see litho-).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to stone. 2 (context chemistry English) Of or relating to lithium. 3 (context medicine English) Relating to the formation of uric acid concretions (stones) in the bladder and other parts of the body. n. 1 (context anthropology English) A stone tool or projectile 2 A medicine that prevents stone in the bladder.
WordNet
adj. of or containing lithium
relating to or composed of stone; "lithic sandstone"
Wikipedia
Lithic may refer to:
- Relating to stone tools
- Lithic analysis, the analysis of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts
- Lithic technology, the array of techniques to produce tools from stone
- Lithic reduction, the process of removing flakes from a stone to make a tool
- Lithic flake, the portion of a rock removed to make a tool
- Lithic core, the part of a stone which has had flakes removed from it
- Lithic stage, the North American prehistoric period before 10,000 years ago
- Lithic fragment (geology), pieces of rock, eroded to sand size, and now sand grains in a sedimentary rock
- Lithic sandstone, sandstone with a significant component of (above) lithic fragments
Usage examples of "lithic".
Toca da Esperanga, it is much easier to interpret the lithic industry of the Calico site, in the Mojave Desert, near Yermo, San Bernardino County, California, which is dated at between 150,000 and 200,000 years.
The contexts in which these lithic pseudomorphs were found suggested great antiquity, which made the pioneering geologists question their validity as artifacts.
There were pipes made of red pipestone, very old, but difficult to date without her lithic textbooks.
Back on the raft and around a horseshoe bend at Mile 33, they marveled at the vast sandpile forming an amphitheater under an overhanging scarp of rust-colored rock known as Redwall Cavern, so spacious that Major Powell had estimated 50,000 people could take shelter under its lithic roof at one time.