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estriació — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • striation noun One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed by repeated twinning or cleaving of crystals.

Senses

estriació is used for these senses in English:

  • striation The action of marking with a stria.

striation — full definition

  1. noun One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed by repeated twinning or cleaving of crystals.
  2. noun One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape.
  3. noun The action of marking with a stria.
  4. noun The result of being marked with a stria.