striation
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]striation (countable and uncountable, plural striations)
- (countable, mineralogy) One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed by repeated twinning or cleaving of crystals.
- (countable, geomorphology) One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape.
- 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time[1]:
- The energy raised the temperature of the snow a couple of degrees, and the friction carved striations high in the icy sides of the canyon walls.
- The action of marking with a stria.
- The result of being marked with a stria.
- (roofing) a parallel series of small grooves, channels, or impressions typically within a metal roof panel used to help reduce the potential for oil-canning.
Translations
[edit]action of marking with a stria
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result of being marked with a stria
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References
[edit]- “striation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “striation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]striation f (plural striations)
Further reading
[edit]- “striation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.