Usually means: Metamorphic rock with foliated structure.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word schist:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. schist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. schist: Merriam-Webster
  3. schist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. schist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. schist: Collins English Dictionary
  6. schist: Vocabulary.com
  7. Schist, schist: Wordnik
  8. schist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. schist: Wiktionary
  10. schist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. schist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. schist: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. schist: Dictionary.com
  14. schist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Schist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Schist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. schist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. schist: Rhymezone
  19. Schist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. schist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. schist, schist-: MyWord.info
  22. schist: FreeDictionary.org
  23. schist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. schist: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. schist: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. schist-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. schist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. schist(o)-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. schist: A Word A Day
  2. schist: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. schist: Dictionary of Geology

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. schist: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (schist)

noun:  Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.

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