Usually means: Exposed rock formation at surface.
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  1. outcrop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. outcrop: Merriam-Webster
  3. outcrop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. outcrop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. outcrop: Collins English Dictionary
  6. outcrop: Vocabulary.com
  7. outcrop: Wordnik
  8. outcrop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. outcrop: Wiktionary
  10. outcrop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. outcrop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. outcrop: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. outcrop: Dictionary.com
  14. outcrop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Outcrop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Outcrop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. outcrop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. outcrop: Rhymezone
  19. Outcrop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. outcrop: FreeDictionary.org
  21. outcrop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. outcrop: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. outcrop: Encyclopedia

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  1. outcrop: Natural History Terms

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  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Outcrop: Gems and Precious Stones
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See outcropped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A piece of land that stands out (usually into water) from the land surrounding.
noun:  A coming out of bedrock or of an unconsolidated deposit to the surface of the ground.
noun:  The part of a rock formation that appears at the surface of the ground.
verb:  (geology, of a stratum) To come out to the surface of the ground.

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