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

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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

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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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