petrology

English

WOTD – 23 February 2012

Etymology

From petro- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /pɪˈtɹɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
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(US) IPA^(key): /pəˈtɹɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/

Noun

petrology (usually uncountable, plural petrologies)

(geology) The study of the origin, composition and structure of rock.

Related terms

Translations

the study of rock

Bashkir: петрология (petrologiya)
Catalan: petrologia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 岩石學／岩石学 (zh) (yánshíxué)
Danish: petrologi (da) c
Dutch: steenkunde f
Finnish: petrologia (fi)
French: pétrologie (fr) f
Galician: petroloxía f
German: Petrologie f, Gesteinskunde f
Italian: petrologia (it) f
Japanese: 岩石学 (ja) (がんせきがく, gansekigaku)
Kazakh: петрология (petrologiä)
Kyrgyz: петрология (petrologiya)
Malayalam: ശിലാവിജ്ഞാനം (śilāvijñānaṃ)
Norwegian: petrologi m
Portuguese: petrologia f
Romanian: petrologie (ro) f
Spanish: petrología (es) f
Tagalog: dalubbatuhan
Tamil: பாறையியல் (ta) (pāṟaiyiyal)
Vietnamese: thạch luận

Anagrams

pterology, reptology

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