striation's Usage Examples:

They occasionally exhibit striation and originate from large branched cells, the nucleus and unmodified part of which form conspicuous elements.

Multiple transverse striations along the blade edge, which is largely intact.

In the rapidly moving glaciers of the icefjords this striation is not distinctly visible, being evidently obliterated by the strong motion of the ice masses.

I've added links to 2 of my other acorn orientated pages, take a look, they're well worth a visit!are common and sometimes very puzzling, but they can always be orientated by the aid of the very characteristic striations, on the prism faces, which serve also to distinguish quartz from other minerals of similar appearance.

transverse striations along the blade edge, which is largely intact.

s, fold or striation.

Roman glass beads are always drawn out, and nicked off hot, with striation Iengthways; except the large opaque variegated beads which are coiled.

, 1802) in his usual summary fashion gave a general explanation of these colours, including the law of sines, the striations being supposed to be straight, parallel and equidistant.

For dense muscularity, deep cuts with deep striations, look no further than Lloyd.

Twinned crystals are not common, but the presence of polysynthetic twinning is sometimes shown by fine striations running diagonally or obliquely across the cleavage surfaces.

Boulder-clay is a coarse unstratified deposit of fine clay, with more or less sand, and boulders of various sizes, the latter usually marked with glacial striations.

Rocks scored by glacial ice and showing plain indications of striation, together with thousands of erratic blocks, are found scattered all over Iceland.

pyrite crystal (above left) has striations, or lines, on the surface.

Synonyms:

groove, channel, stria,

Antonyms:

unbar, allow, permit, free,