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   Striation

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   • 1. a long, thin streak, ridge, or groove on a surface, often one of many similar parallel marks: "interesting striations in the rock walls beg a closer look"

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   What does it mean if a rock has a deep striation?

   • If the rock you found on the beach has a deep striation, it means there's an engraved stripe or groove running across it. If the word stripes seems too fun and informal for your descriptive needs, you might want to try striations, which is tech talk for the same thing.

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   What does striation mean?

   • Striation likes to keep company with other technical words like longitudinal and transverse, more commonly known as lengthwise and across. The Latin root of striation, stria, means "furrow, channel, or flute of a column." "Striation."

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   What is striation in a sentence?

   • In the form here figured the striation is as stated by De Toni, but is about 19 at the ends. Striation definition: striated condition or appearance.. See examples of STRIATION used in a sentence.

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   Is striation a technical word?

   • If the word stripes seems too fun and informal for your descriptive needs, you might want to try striations, which is tech talk for the same thing. Striation likes to keep company with other technical words like longitudinal and transverse, more commonly known as lengthwise and across.

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3. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › striationStriation Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   Learn the meaning of striation, a word that describes the fact or state of being striated, or having parallel grooves or bands. See examples of striation in sentences, word history, and related entries.

4. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishSTRIATION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   Striation is a noun that means a long, thin line, mark, or strip of colour or a pattern of lines or grooves on the surface of something. Learn how to use it in sentences and find out how to say it in different languages.

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   striation. / strī-ā ′ shən /. One of multiple, usually parallel grooves or scratches on a rock surface, produced by abrasion associated with glacial movement, stream flow, a geologic fault, or meteoric impact. See more at glacial striation.

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Striation_(geology)Striation (geology) - Wikipedia

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   In geology, a striation is a groove, created by a geological process, on the surface of a rock or a mineral. In structural geology, striations are linear furrows, or linear marks, generated from fault movement. The striation's direction reveals the movement direction in the fault plane. [1]

7. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionarySTRIATION | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   Striation is a noun that means a long, thin line, mark, or strip of color, or a pattern of lines or grooves on the surface of something. Learn how to use it in sentences, see examples from different sources, and find translations in other languages.

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9. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › striationStriation - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

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   Definitions of striation. noun. 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. synonyms: stria. see more. noun. a stripe or stripes of contrasting color. synonyms: band, banding, stria. see more.

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    Striations means a series of ridges, furrows or linear marks, and is used in several ways: Glacial striation; Striation (fatigue), in material; Striation (geology), a striation as a result of a geological fault; Striation Valley, in Antarctica; In hyperbolic geometry, a striation is a reflection across two parallel mirrors. In anatomy, striated ...