clast-, clas-, -clastic, -clast, -clase, -clasia, -clasis, -clasis, -clasmic, -clasm

1. Referring to rocks that were broken by wind erosion and rounded by wind actions.
2. Particles of rocks or single crystals which have been derived from wind, weathering, and erosion.

1. An obsolete term for hemostat, an agent, such as a chemical, that stops bleeding.
2. A clamplike instrument used to compress a blood vessel in order to reduce or arrest the flow of blood during surgery.

A fragment of rock broken off from its place by atmospheric weathering.

In petrology, referring to a clastic rock composed of rock fragments broken by atmospheric weathering and recemented in the same pattern as the previous arrangement.

Broken in place, said of rocks having a broken or brecciated (rocks with sharp-angled fragments) structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.

Destruction of books, especially the Bible.

Book burning is just one way of destroying books, often ceremoniously, including one or more copies of a book or other written material during the process.

In modern times, other forms of media; such as, phonograph records, video tapes, and CDs have also been ceremoniously burned, torched, or shredded. The practice is usually carried out in public, and is generally motivated by moral, religious, or political objections to the materials.

1. A destroyer or mutilator of books.
2. Someone who habitually mutilates books.

A single fossil fragment.