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magma

  • /ˈmæɡ.mə/

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noun magmas · magmata

  1. countable, uncountable A mixture of molten silicate rock, crystals, and gas within the earth, which may be erupted as lava or cool in place to form igneous intrusions. By the pathside, there are occasional large boulders that shown black crystals the size of a fingernail; these are pyroxene minerals that had time to crystallise out deep within the chamber of liquid rock – or magma – beneath the volcano.
  2. countable, uncountable A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
  3. countable, uncountable Any soft doughy mass.
  4. countable, uncountable The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.

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Closest in meaning: gabbroid, melt, igneous, source, intruding, erupting, magma chamber, mantle, mantle plume, moya, materiation, morb, mesosphere, meltage, mud volcano, molass

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noun molten matter

Españolmagma
한국어마그마 mageuma
日本語岩漿 ganshō, マグマ maguma
中文岩漿 /岩浆 yánjiāng
हिन्दीमैग्मा maigmā
Kiswahilimagma
Portuguêsmagma, lava
Françaismagma
DeutschMagma
Italianomagma
Ελληνικάμάγμα mágma
Русскийма́гма mágma, ла́ва láva
Tiếng Việtmắc ma
العربيةصُهَارَة ṣuhāra, مَاغْمَا māḡmā
עבריתמאגמה magma

noun algebra: an algebraic structure

Españolmagma
日本語マグマ maguma
中文原群 yuánqún
Portuguêsgrupoide
DeutschMagma

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@misc{magma_2026,
  title = {magma},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/magma},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}