The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corrugation \Cor`ru*ga"tion\ (k?r`r?-g?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. corrugation.] The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from Latin *corrugationem, noun of action from past participle stem of corrugare (see corrugate).
Wiktionary
n. The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
WordNet
n. a ridge on a corrugated surface
the act of shaping into parallel ridges and grooves
Usage examples of "corrugation".
As she bumped over the rough corrugations of the tiles, she grasped at the dirt and moss that had taken hold in the troughs between the tile courses.
Sometimes he was foot-loose for a while, for the sake of conviction, far up the steep cobbled street taking pictures of the sunlit pattern of the village, green corrugations of shutters, white backward-leaning walls, shallow beautiful roofs with the perpendicular slopes of trees hung like improbable backcloths behind them.
Too damned much firing, and he was lashing two grenades side by side on top of the braced blocks of explosive, winding wire over their corrugations so they would hold tight and firm and lashing it tight.
He thought he could see something of a cellular structure, though: there was a crude graininess to the corrugations, lumps maybe the size of rice grains.
Those complex bruised-purple corrugations spread all the way to the rim.
There are as many as forty of these fractures, depending on how you count them, as some of the indentations are canyons, while others are only isolated ridges, or deep cracks, or simply corrugations in the plain-all running north and south, and all cutting into a metallogenic province of great richness, a basalt mass rifted with all kinds of ore intrusions' from below.
These corrugations ran from the rim's rough hills down into the basin, forcing the piste viaduct to alternate between great arching bridges and deep cuts, or tunnels.
The ragged corrugations of the Great Escarpment were gray-on-black in the starlight, lined with black shadows.
There are as many as forty of these fractures, depending on how you count them, as some of the indentations are canyons, while others are only isolated ridges, or deep cracks, or simply corrugations in the plain—all running north and south, and all cutting into a metallogenic province of great richness, a basalt mass rifted with all kinds of ore intrusions’ from below.
These corrugations ran from the rim’s rough hills down into the basin, forcing the piste viaduct to alternate between great arching bridges and deep cuts, or tunnels.
The knobby surface now clearly resolved into vertical corrugations, not so much a range of hills as an irregular wall, cut like sliced cheese, bearing down on us.
The corrugations had become blades, the edges of knives pressed tight against each other and arrayed into an endless wall taller than the ship's highest mast by at least a hundred meters.
It showed France and Northern Spain, the brown corrugations of the Pyrenees marching from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, and snaking down the spine of the mountains the scarlet track of the border.
There were little cracks and corrugations that would have given pause to a fly with common sense.
Growing old, for us, isn't a matter so much of bodily decay--that is fended off by efficient processes of automatic bioenergetic correction -- as of increasing inward rigidity, a creakiness of the soul, a corrugation of the psyche, a stiffening of the spiritual synapses.