corrugation

[ kawr-uh-gey-shuhn, kor- ]

noun

1. the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
2. a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.

Word History and Origins

Origin of corrugation¹

1520–30; < Medieval Latin corrūgātiōn- (stem of corrūgātiō ) a wrinkling. See corrugate, -ion

Example Sentences

During this energetic action the whole fabric is kept in a state of corrugation, and to such extent is rigid.

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Small cooking bowl, remarkable for corrugation representing the rising of the boiling waters of a flood.

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The floor underfoot was quite different—more of a metallic quality with a curious corrugation.

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Only now there were no rocks or bowlders, and the ground was smoother and with a peculiar corrugation.

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Then the roof, with a nail in every corrugation, in the concaves instead of the convexes, and the mansion wanted but a floor.

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