Striation

Synonyms for "striation" (66 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (14)

band stria bar belt bezel chamfer chase chink corrugation crack cranny craze

Noun(2 words)

Strong matches (19)

cross hatching cross-hatching cut dado dash delineation diagonal dotted line engraving flute fluting furrow gash gouge groove hachure hairline hatching incision

Related words (33)

line lineation list microgroove rabbet rifling ruck rut score scratch slash slit streak streaking striature striga striola strip stripe striping

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stroke sublineation sulcation sulcus underline underlining underscore underscoring vein virgule well-worn groove wrinkle

Noun(1 words)

stria

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

5 entries

bar channel groove streak stripe

Synonyms

2 entries

band stria

derived from

2 entries

stria striate

has context

3 entries

geomorphology mineralogy roofing

related to

13 entries

channel crystal deposit glacier groove impression oil canning outcrop parallel ridge rock scratch stria

Translations

7 translations across 6 languages.

Catalan

1 entries

estriació noun (action of marking with a stria)

French

1 entries

striation noun (action of marking with a stria)

German

2 entries

Streifen noun (action of marking with a stria)
Streifung noun (result of being marked with a stria)

Italian

1 entries

striatura noun (action of marking with a stria)

Portuguese

1 entries

estriamento noun (action of marking with a stria)

Spanish

1 entries

estriación noun (action of marking with a stria)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The energy raised the temperature of the snow a couple of degrees, and the friction carved striations high in the icy sides of the canyon walls.

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