CORRUGATED

corrugated

(adjective) shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges; “the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

corrugated

simple past tense and past participle of corrugate

Adjective

corrugated (not comparable)

Marked with parallel folds, ridges or furrows.

Bent into regular curved folds or grooves.

Source: Wiktionary


CORRUGATE

Cor"ru*gate (kr"r-gt), a. Etym: [L. corrugatus, p. p. of corrugare; cor-+ rugare to wrinkle, ruga wrinkle; of uncertain origin.]

Definition: Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.

Cor"ru*gate (-gt), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Corrugated (-g`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Corrugating (-g`tng).]

Definition: To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness.

– Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrugated in order to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material for fragile articles, as bottles.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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