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Word: striation (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • 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.
  • countable geomorphology One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape.
  • 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.
  • The action of marking with a stria.
  • The result of being marked with a stria.

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