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striation

About 0.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed by repeated twinning or cleaving of crystals.
  2. noun One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape.
  3. noun The action of marking with a stria.
  4. noun The result of being marked with a stria.
  5. noun a parallel series of small grooves, channels, or impressions typically within a metal roof panel used to help reduce the potential for oil-canning.

Similar words

stria band slicking schlieren vein foliation fissure vein stratula cleavage stylolite

Often followed by

of is and in pattern spacing on thickness marks

Word family

striations

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