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In Greek mythology, Dike or Dice[1] (/ ˈdaɪkiː / or / ˈdaɪsiː /; [2] Greek: Δίκη, Díkē, 'justice, custom') is the goddess of justice and the spirit of moral order and fair judgement as a transcendent universal ideal or based on immemorial custom, in the sense of socially enforced norms and conventional rules.
: a bank (see bank entry 1 sense 1) usually of earth constructed to control or confine water : levee. b. : a barrier preventing passage especially of something undesirable. 3. a. civil engineering : a raised causeway. b. geology : a tabular body of igneous rock that has been injected while molten into a fissure. dike. 2 of 3. verb. diked; diking.
In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body. Dikes can be either magmatic or sedimentary in origin. Magmatic dikes form when magma flows into a crack then solidifies as a sheet intrusion, either cutting across layers of rock or through a contiguous mass of rock.
Dikes, sometimes referred to as wing dams or spur dikes, are structures placed in a river to redirect the river's own energy to provide a variety of effects.
A dike is a barrier used to regulate or hold back water from a river, lake, or even the ocean. In geology, a dike is a large slab of rock that cuts through another type of rock.
Dike definition: an embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river. See examples of DIKE used in a sentence.
A dike (spelled dyke in British English) is a body of rock, either sedimentary or igneous, that cuts across the layers of its surroundings. They form in pre-existing fractures, meaning that dikes are always younger than the body of rock that they have intruded into.
dike, in geology, tabular or sheetlike igneous body that is often oriented vertically or steeply inclined to the bedding of preexisting intruded rocks; similar bodies oriented parallel to the bedding of the enclosing rocks are called sills.
A dike (also spelled dyke) is a sheet tabular intrusion that crosscuts preexisting country rocks. In the vast majority of cases, a dike consists of igneous rocks. However, sedimentary processes may also produce sediment-filled cracks called clastic or sedimentary dikes.
a layer of newer rock that is created when melted rock flows into spaces in older rock and then hardens. dike noun [C] (WALL) a long wall that prevents water, esp. from the sea, from flooding a place. (Definition of dike from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of dike?