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# metamorphic

«metamorphic» in Mova's school dictionary: **rock that has been changed by great heat and pressure…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (metamorphic)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (science) Metamorphic rock is rock that has been changed by great heat and pressure deep underground, without melting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metamorphic/#m1)

2) Metamorphic means to do with a big change of form. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metamorphic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography: the three kinds of rock are igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. Examples: limestone changes into marble; mudstone or shale into slate. Phrases: metamorphic rock, the rock cycle.

### examples

- Marble is a metamorphic rock made from limestone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metamorphic/#x1)
- Slate is metamorphic and splits into thin sheets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metamorphic/#x2)
- Metamorphic rocks form deep under mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metamorphic/#x3)
- We sorted the rocks into igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metamorphic/#x4)
- Heat and pressure make metamorphic rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metamorphic/#x5)
- Metamorphic rocks can have bands or stripes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metamorphic/#x6)

### note

Related: metamorphosis (a big change, like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly). Do not confuse the three rock types: igneous (from melted rock), sedimentary (from layers), metamorphic (changed by heat and pressure).

### In the corpora

- [All rocks belong to three families: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/48-igneous-rocks-and-the-rock-cycle/12/)
- [Metamorphic rocks are rocks changed by heat and pressure without melting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/49-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks/12/)
- [Metamorphic rock forms when rock is changed by great heat and pressure without melting; marble is limestone changed in this way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «metamorphic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metamorphic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.