Striation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The state of being striated or having striae.
  • n. One of a number of parallel lines or scratches on the surface of a rock that were inscribed by rock fragments embedded in the base of a glacier as it moved across the rock.
  • n. The form taken by striae.
  • n. A stria.
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  • n. (mineralogy) One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed by repeated twinning or cleaving of crystals.
  • n. (geomorphology) One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape.
  • n. The action of marking with a stria.
  • n. The result of being marked with a stria.
  • n. a parallel series of small grooves, channels, or impressions typically within a metal roof panel used to help reduce the potential for oil-canning.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or condition of being striated.
  • n. A stria.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of being striated; a striate condition or appearance; striature; also, one of a set of striæ; a stria.
  • n. In geology, grooves, flutings, and scratches made on the surfaces of rocks by the passage over them of bodies of ice: a result frequently observed along the sides of existing glaciers, and in regions which were formerly occupied by ice.
  • n. In mineralogy, fine parallel lines on a crystalline face, commonly due to the oscillatory combination of two crystalline forms.
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  • n. any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue
  • n. a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    groove    channel   
    Cross Reference
    tabby-cat striation    striation of baillarger   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    stria   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    flexure    streamside    purple-grey    viscidity    fingerings   
     
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