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Webster 1913 Edition
Fluidal
Flu′id-al
,Adj.
Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion.
Fluidal structure
(Geol.)
, the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; – also called
fluxion structure
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fluidal
fluidal
English
Adjective
fluidal (not comparable)
- (chiefly geology) Pertaining to a fluid, or to a flowing motion.
- 2001, Anthea Bell, translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz, Penguin 2011, p. 348:
- The contours of their bodies […] had dissolved at the edges, resembling, as it occurred to me, said Austerlitz, the frayed outlines of the human hand shown in the fluidal pictures and electrographs taken by Louis Draget in Paris around the turn of the century.
- 2001, Anthea Bell, translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz, Penguin 2011, p. 348: