striation
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8.1
- noun
- /straɪˈeɪʃən/
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estriación
- The rock formations displayed striking striation patterns, alternating between dark and light colors.
The green striations, the, you know, the color, the vibrancy of that melon is developing.
- The green striations, the, you know, the color, the vibrancy of that melon is developing.
- You're going to get these stripes and striations that go from green and white down to a chocolate red and cream color.
- But you have a vertical striations, right, instead of going that Gray green banding that we've been talking about.
Examples
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The striations, the dark and light lines which run diagonally across it, seem to put it in the Miocene, but the table's location, so near the sofa, indicates a much earlier date (Paleocene?).
Fiction book (1992) -
You're going to get these stripes and striations that go from green and white down to a chocolate red and cream color.
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See these striations right here?
Fiction book (1992) -
I mean, look at those striations!
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One or two pieces were all white or mostly black, but the vast majority were white with random black striations.
Academic text (1998) -
" See the extent of the striations on this promising egg."
Fiction book (2002) -
Those faint striation patterns on his throat... and on his wrists, and on those parts.
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And Steve related the fact that I carried a big chunk of rock up from a fault down because it had Neat striations on it that showed how the blocks moved.
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It was misshapen and anatomical; the rocks reminded her of the striations in muscle.
Fiction book (1994) -
Many of the figures in the crowd are so loosely delineated that they dissolve into the swirls and eddies of Sloan's brushstrokes, some of which were laid down so quickly that there are visible striations.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.3
A strip of different color or material used as decoration
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3.2
Long lines of colour put on a surface like clothing or roads
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9.9
A thin line on a surface that is different in color or texture
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5.1
A narrow area of a different color or material on clothing and buildings used for decoration
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Striation comes from the Latin stria, meaning 'furrow' or 'groove', and it shares the same root as the common word stripe. So, think of a tiger's coat or a ploughed field with bands of color: a striation is a stripe or pattern of stripes, which is why we use it for marks of contrasting color.