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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The state of being striated or having striae.
  2. n. 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. n. The form taken by striae.
  4. n. A stria.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state of being striated; a striate condition or appearance; striature; also, one of a set of striæ; a stria.
  2. n. In geology, grooves, flutings, and scratches made on the surfaces of rocks by the passage over them of bodies of ice: a result frequently observed along the sides of existing glaciers, and in regions which were formerly occupied by ice.
  3. n. In mineralogy, fine parallel lines on a crystalline face, commonly due to the oscillatory combination of two crystalline forms.

Wiktionary

  1. n. countable (mineralogy) One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed by repeated twinning or cleaving of crystals.
  2. n. countable (geomorphology) One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape.
  3. n. The action of marking with a stria.
  4. n. The result of being marked with a stria.
  5. n. roofing a parallel series of small grooves, channels, or impressions typically within a metal roof panel used to help reduce the potential for oil-canning.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality or condition of being striated.
  2. n. A stria.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. 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. n. a stripe or stripes of contrasting color

Etymologies

  1. stria +‎ -tion? or from striate (Wiktionary)

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  1. stria

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  1. groove
  1. channel

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  2. salmon-pink
  3. lusciousness
  1. expansibility
  2. hairiness
  3. moistness
  1. mouthfeel
  2. rockslide
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  1. tabby-cat striation
  1. striature
  1. rowiness
  1. striate
  1. cirro-nebula
  1. ridge
  1. stria
  1. crenulation
  1. glaciation

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  • YeOldeWorde If you slit your wrist, the resulting cut is technically a striation. Useful if you're an Emo. "Life sucks, man! Look at my striations!" Mar 20, 2012

  • bilby Sounds like tosh to me. Jan 16, 2009

  • vanishedone The Economist: 'Tintin has never been a big hit in the Anglo-Saxon world. In Britain, he is reasonably well known, but as a minority taste, bound within narrow striations of class: his albums are bought to be tucked into boarding school trunks or read after Saturday morning violin lessons.'

    Apparently I'm a minority within a minority, since I can't say I find this image familiar. Jan 16, 2009

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