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Encyclopedia > Dike

Dyke (normal International spelling) or Dike (normal American spelling) can mean several things:

  • A dyke / dike is a long wall built to keep out the sea or enclose land.
  • Dyke / Dike is another word for a ditch
  • Dyke / Dike is a slang term for a lesbian.
  • In geology, a dyke / dike is a long mass of minerals, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
  • Dike is the Greek goddess of moral justice.
  • 99 Dike is an asteroid.

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Dike (geology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (219 words)
Dikes are usually high angle to near vertical in orientation, but subsequent tectonic deformation may rotate the including sequence.
Dikes often form as either radial or concentric swarms around plutonic intrusives or around volcanic necks or feeder vents in volcanic cones.
Pegmatite dikes are extremely coarsely crystalline granitic rocks often associated with late stage granite intrusions or metamorphic segregations.
Dike, Greek Mythology Link. (1772 words)
Dike is Justice, a great goddess worshipped by all and denied by no one.
For it is a great shame to fail to worship Dike, and no one dares to stand against her openly.
But some have believed that Dike is fairer than these two, and yields greater benefit and pleasure because, they reason, there is nothing more painful than being wicked, and for that reason they also think that it is fouler to wrong than to be wronged.
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