Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable)One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed by repeated twinning or cleaving of crystals.

    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

  2. (countable)One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape.

  3. (countable, uncountable)The action of marking with a stria.

    Streifen

  4. (countable, uncountable)The result of being marked with a stria.

    Streifung

  5. (countable, uncountable)A parallel series of small grooves, channels, or impressions typically within a metal roof panel used to help reduce the potential for oil-canning.

Translations

5 languages
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By meaning 2
action of marking with a stria:
result of being marked with a stria:

Forms

plural: striations
Singularstriation
Pluralstriations

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • 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:stria
  • a stripe or stripes of contrasting color:bandbandingstria

Word family

4 related words

See also

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