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Lineation

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A linear feature in rock, often structural countable, uncountable

    "magnetic lineations"

  2. 2
    the act of marking or outlining with lines wordnet
  3. 3
    The way in which line breaks are inserted in a poem countable, uncountable

    "Lineation is very much a matter of syntax, organizing the poem's grammar across its lines in ways significant and central to the poem's meaning."

  4. 4
    the line that appears to bound an object wordnet

Etymology

From Latin lineatio.

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