striation

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It is really more scientific to repeat a quotation from a political speech correctly, or to pass on a story undistorted, than it is to know of the rings of Saturn or the striation of diatoms 2.

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  1. noun The state of being striated or having striae.
  2. noun One of a number of parallel lines or scratches on the surface of a rock that were inscribed by rock fragments embedded in the base of a glacier as it moved across the rock.
  3. noun The form taken by striae.
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  • My Penguin Classics form a band of black crowned with a single red striation, and my cookbooks' spines flash an array of color that, frankly, makes me hungry.
  • Well, how do you do that when there are no striation on the tablets? —  The Trouble With Spikol
  • The perfect substrate, one that mimics the elasticity of normal heart tissue, provides an environment optimal for transmitting contractile work to the matrix and for promoting actomyosin striation and thus healthy and mature heart fibers. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • "King Porter Stomp," also by Morton, Threadgill challenges McCall, who quadruples the time so Henry and Fred can stop up the middle eight with some weird angular intervals where arpeggiated harmony and modal striation become one and the same thing. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • Personal trainer Ramona Braganza says some of the celebrities she trains don't fear a muscle striation or two. —  tennessean.com - Top News from The Tennessean, MUSIC CITY U.S.A
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/straɪˈeɪʃən/
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