According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
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.
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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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