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Arrangement of parallel bands
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striation
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1849, "a parallel streak," noun of action from striate (v.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In structural geology , striations are linear furrows generated from fault movement. The striation's direction reveal the movement directions in the fault plane. Similar striations called glacial striations can occur in areas subjected to glaciation . Striations ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 [syn: stria ] a stripe of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands" [syn: band , stria ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Striation \Stri*a"tion\, n. The quality or condition of being striated. A stria; as, the striations on a shell.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable mineralogy English) One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed by repeated twinning or cleaving of crystals. 2 (context countable geomorphology English) One of a number of parallel scratch lines ...
Usage examples of striation.
V-shaped cuts also revealed evenly spaced, parallel longitudinal striations, that, too, would have to be taken as evidence that shark teeth made the cuts.
On account of the striations of these cells the muscles which they form are called striated muscles.
Beneath the settled striations of the earth, shafts of unmined crystal rang still to the horn calls of vanished centaur guardians.
Clever lighting could take years off her, but up close you could see the years closing in, the tiny wrinkles around the eyes and the beginning of the flesh getting slack and the striations on the upper parts of her thighs where the skin had stretched sometime when she ate her way out of the burlecue circuit.
Flaring latissimus dorsi joined at the spine in tightly knit striations.
The disciplinary institutions, the boundaries of the effectivity of their logics, and their striation of social space all constitute instances of verticality or transcendence over the social plane.
The red striations in those dark irises brightened, sending a shiver down her spine.
The striations contain the chlorophyll, and the little spheres nestling against these striations contain the phycobilins, which make a red alga red.
Those striations he thought he had seen on the ice, radiating inward from the rim wall, were actually ruts, he saw now, worn into water ice as hard as granite by the passage of countless feet, over countless years.
With his head dropped back, I could see the long red striations beneath the collar of his shirt.
He also was responsible for me being able to see the striations of aura - and the whole energy form.
It is, of course, a requirement within your own impeccability to learn the striations of emotions and boundaries that form these manifestations.
They looked beautiful in the sunrise, with golden edges and striations of glowing rays.
Gerwita faintly, pressing up behind Rosvita as the tunnel opened into a cavern no larger than a village church, the rock walls marked with odd striations, ribbons of color painted onto the rock.
It swam against the luminous striations of Jupiter, an angular, many-armed silhouette.