striation

English

Striations in rocks.

Striations in a tile.

Striations in muscles (particularly the chest).

Etymology

Etymology tree

English striate

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English -ion

English striation

From striate + -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [stɹaɪˈeɪ.ʃən]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

striation (countable and uncountable, plural striations)

1. (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.
2. (countable, geomorphology) One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape.
   • 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 November 2013:

     The energy raised the temperature of the snow a couple of degrees, and the friction carved striations high in the icy sides of the canyon walls.

3. The action of marking with a stria.
4. The result of being marked with a stria.
5. (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.

Derived terms

• interstriation
• microstriation
• striational

Translations

action of marking with a stria

• Catalan: estriació f
• French: striation (fr) f
• German: Streifen (de) n
• Italian: striatura f
• Portuguese: estriamento m
• Spanish: estriación f

result of being marked with a stria

• German: Streifung f

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “striation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “striation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• tritonias

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

striation f (plural striations)

1. striation

Further reading

• “striation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012