STRIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does striation mean? 

• STRIATION (noun)
  The noun STRIATION has 2 senses:

1. 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

2. a stripe or stripes of contrasting color

  Familiarity information: STRIATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

stria; striation

Hypernyms ("striation" is a kind of...):

channel; groove (a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record))

Derivation:

striate (mark with striae or striations)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A stripe or stripes of contrasting color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

band; banding; stria; striation

Context example:

the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps

Hypernyms ("striation" is a kind of...):

bar; streak; stripe (a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "striation"):

collar ((zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal)

stretch mark (a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy))

Derivation:

striate (mark with striae or striations)

 Context examples 

Darker regions correspond to stronger polarized emission, and the striations indicate the direction of the magnetic field projected on the plane of the sky.

(Planck Takes Magnetic Fingerprint of Our Galaxy, JPL/NASA)

A disorder characterized by signs and symptoms that resemble Cushing's disease or syndrome: buffalo hump obesity, striations, adiposity, hypertension, diabetes, and osteoporosis, usually due to exogenous corticosteroids.

(Cushingoid, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Curiosity's science team refers to the rock layer surrounding the base of Mount Remarkable as the middle unit because its location is intermediate between rocks that form buttes in the area and lower-lying rocks that show a pattern of striations.

(NASA Mars Orbiter Spies Rover Near Martian Butte, NASA)