Stria

[straiә]

Definition

(noun.) 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.

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Definition

(n.) A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.

(n.) A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [L. pl. Stri?/i>.] Furrow, groove, channel.

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Definition

n. a stripe or streak a small channel or thread-like line running parallel to another: (archit.) one of the fillets between the flutes of columns &c.:—pl. Strī′?/span> (ē).—v.t. Strīāte′ to score stripe.—adjs. Strī′āte -d marked with stri?or small parallel channels.—ns. Strīā′tion; Strīā′tum the corpus striatum the great ganglion of the fore-brain; Strī′ature mode of striation.

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