STRIATION
band, banding, stria, striation
(noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; “chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands”; “the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps”
stria, 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
striation (countable and uncountable, plural striations)
(countable, mineralogy) One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed by repeated twinning or cleaving of crystals.
(countable, geomorphology) One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape.
The action of marking with a stria.
The result of being marked with a stria.
(roofing) a parallel series of small grooves, channels, or impressions typically within a metal roof panel used to help reduce the potential for oil-canning.
Anagrams
• tritonias
Source: Wiktionary
Stri*a"tion, n.
1. The quality or condition of being striated.
2. A stria; as, the striations on a shell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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