Striation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Striation \Stri*a"tion\, n.
     1. The quality or condition of being striated.
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     2. A stria; as, the striations on a shell.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  striation
       n 1: 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 [syn: {stria}]
       2: a stripe of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit
          characteristic bands" [syn: {band}, {stria}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "striation":
     band, bar, belt, bezel, chamfer, chase, chink, corrugation, crack,
     cranny, craze, cross-hatching, cut, dado, dash, delineation,
     diagonal, dotted line, engraving, flute, fluting, furrow, gash,
     gouge, groove, hachure, hairline, hatching, incision, line,
     lineation, list, microgroove, rabbet, rifling, ruck, rut, score,
     scratch, slash, slit, streak, streaking, stria, striature, striga,
     striola, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, sulcation,
     sulcus, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule,
     well-worn groove, wrinkle