Lithic is an English word with synonyms like metal or material. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lithic meaning
- Relating to stone.
- Relating to rock.
- Relating to lithium.
Using Lithic
- The main meaning on this page is: Relating to stone. | Relating to rock. | Relating to lithium.
- Useful related words include: metallic element, metal, material, stuff.
- In the example corpus, lithic often appears in combinations such as: lithic analysis, the lithic, lithic reduction.
Context around Lithic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lithic
- In this selection, "lithic" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, largest, early, extensive, analysis, reduction and industry stand out and add context to how "lithic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include discovered a lithic industry characteristic and early lithic analysis by. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lithic" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lithic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
His extensive lithic analysis leaves no doubt. (7 words)
Early lithic analysis by Michele Mercati Michele Mercati, Commemorative Medal. (10 words)
Lithic analysis is a major and specialised form of archaeological investigation. (11 words)
In addition to setting a boundary for what the matrix is, Dott also breaks up the different types framework grains that can be present in a sandstone into three major categories: quartz, feldspar, and lithic grains. (36 words)
The analysing stone tool assemblages from sites on the Tehran Plain in Iran has illustrated the effects of the introduction of copper working technologies on the in-place systems of lithic craft specialists and raw materials. (36 words)
This was confirmed by other findings made in this excavation near the large water reservoir on top of the rock where two polished greenstone axes were discovered, a lithic industry characteristic of "shepherds of the plateaux". (36 words)
Example sentences (17)
The museum has within its facilities the largest ‘Lithic Park’ or ‘Parque de Piedra’ in South America, which represents the main attraction of the museum.
Early lithic analysis by Michele Mercati Michele Mercati, Commemorative Medal.
Here, analysis of six archaeological sites determined a marked downward trend in not only material quality, but also in aesthetic variation in the lithic artefacts.
His extensive lithic analysis leaves no doubt.
In addition to setting a boundary for what the matrix is, Dott also breaks up the different types framework grains that can be present in a sandstone into three major categories: quartz, feldspar, and lithic grains.
It includes scientific study of the lithic reduction of the raw materials, examining how the artifacts were made.
It is believed that the Three Fathom Cove was a river-valley settlement and Wong Tei Tung was a lithic manufacturing site.
Lithic analysis is a major and specialised form of archaeological investigation.
Lithic fragments can be any fine-grained or coarse-grained igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary rock.
Lithic reduction stone tools are used by archaeologists and anthropologists to classify cultural periods.
Meanwhile, Haeckel had totally abandoned the geologic uses of the -lithic terms.
On display at the Museo de Arte Popular, Mexico City Lithic analysis can be instrumental in understanding prehispanic groups in Mesoamerica.
Sickle blades also appear for the first time in the Natufian lithic industry.
The analysing stone tool assemblages from sites on the Tehran Plain in Iran has illustrated the effects of the introduction of copper working technologies on the in-place systems of lithic craft specialists and raw materials.
The composition of a sandstone can have important information regarding the genesis of the sediment when used with a triangular Quartz, Feldspar, Lithic fragment ( QFL diagrams ).
This type of grain would be a main component of a lithic sandstone.
This was confirmed by other findings made in this excavation near the large water reservoir on top of the rock where two polished greenstone axes were discovered, a lithic industry characteristic of "shepherds of the plateaux".
Common combinations with lithic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: