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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The order in which a formation of associated minerals is generated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology: Catagenesis.
- noun In biology, the origination, in an individual of a given species, of characters due to or in part derived from another species, as in hybridization; hybridism, with reference to the congenital peculiarities of the resulting offspring.
- noun In mineralogy, the association of mineral species with each other with reference to the order and mode of their formation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) The science which treats of minerals with special reference to their origin.
- noun The formation of minerals in contact, so as to affect one another's development.
- noun The order in which minerals occurring together in rocks and veins have developed.
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- noun geology An ordered
chronological sequence ofmineral formations
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A part of the work of this corps is to study the methods of metamorphism and the paragenesis of minerals, and in this connection the chemists do work in the field; but to
Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 Various
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