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

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gneiss: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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

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

(Note: See gneissic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gneiss)

noun:  (geology) A common and widely-distributed metamorphic rock having bands or veins, but not schistose.

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