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What is a striation?

What is a striation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (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. (countable, geomorphology) One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape.
  3. The action of marking with a stria.
  4. The result of being marked with a stria.
  5. (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.
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Lardon-free tarts are available, pleasant enough but unfocused, lacking that essential smoky striation.
In the next episode, the Las Vegas investigators solved a crime by comparing striation marks on bullets.
There is a striation in his mighty sound, the streaks of time passing, hardly disabling but impossible to miss.
They'd been dehydrating themselves for days, so every vein and striation showed, but their limbs were cramped, their minds depleted.
If you're going for a lean, shredded look, these types of exercises really help you achieve superior muscle separation and striation.
Several phases of Wisconsinan ice flow that predate the Late Wisconsinan Cochrane readvances are preserved in the regional striation record.

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