CRENATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crenation mean? 

• CRENATION (noun)
  The noun CRENATION has 1 sense:

1. one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

  Familiarity information: CRENATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRENATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

crenation; crenature; crenel; crenelle; scallop

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

curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)