'Striation' definitions:
Definition of 'striation'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, striation]
noun
Definition of 'Striation'
From: GCIDE
- Striation \Stri*a"tion\, n.
- 1. The quality or condition of being striated. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A stria; as, the striations on a shell. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'striation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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