Usually means: Parallel lines or grooves on surfaces.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. striation: Merriam-Webster
  2. striation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. striation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. striation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. striation: Vocabulary.com
  6. striation: Wordnik
  7. striation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. striation: Wiktionary
  9. striation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. striation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. striation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. striation: Dictionary.com
  13. striation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Striation (fatigue), Striation (geology), Striation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Striation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. striation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. striation: Rhymezone
  18. Striation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. striation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. striation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. striation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. striation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. striation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. striation: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Striation: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. striation: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (striation)

noun:  (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.
noun:  (countable, geomorphology) One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape.
noun:  The action of marking with a stria.
noun:  The result of being marked with a stria.
noun:  (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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