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  • noun Plural form of striation.

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Examples

  • The lines are called striations and they allow forensic experts in a lab to connect a weapon with bullets found in a victim.

    CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2008 2008

  • They are marked by a number of dark, transverse bands, or stripes, called striations, (83) which seem to divide them into a number of sections, or disks (Fig. 108).

    Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

  • Smaller rock particles have a sandpaper effect on the rocks over which the ice passes while the sharp edges of large rocks make deep grooves called striations

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Smaller rock particles have a sandpaper effect on the rocks over which the ice passes while the sharp edges of large rocks make deep grooves called striations

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Smaller rock particles have a sandpaper effect on the rocks over which the ice passes while the sharp edges of large rocks make deep grooves called striations

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Smaller rock particles have a sandpaper effect on the rocks over which the ice passes while the sharp edges of large rocks make deep grooves called striations

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Smaller rock particles have a sandpaper effect on the rocks over which the ice passes while the sharp edges of large rocks make deep grooves called striations

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Smaller rock particles have a sandpaper effect on the rocks over which the ice passes while the sharp edges of large rocks make deep grooves called striations

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Smaller rock particles have a sandpaper effect on the rocks over which the ice passes while the sharp edges of large rocks make deep grooves called striations

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • She opened the can of hummus and glopped it into a bowl, where it retained the shape and striations from the metal can.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

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