corrugation
AmericanEtymology
Origin of corrugation
1520–30; < Medieval Latin corrūgātiōn- (stem of corrūgātiō ) a wrinkling. See corrugate, -ion
Example Sentences
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The wall is lined with thick, vertical grooves, described by Vargas as “almost like a lattice surface because the corrugation is so deep.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
The researchers set out to determine if the corrugation of a dragonfly's wing is a secret ingredient for boosting lift.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2024
But if the order originates with a poultry producer, the boxes are going to be larger, significantly stronger in composition and corrugation and lined with a coating to prevent leakage.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Gibson’s future seemed already to have aged: the counterfeit young are “marked by a certain telltale corrugation at the knuckles, something the surgeons were unable to erase.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
Further proof of the colossal compression to which the rocks have been subjected is afforded by their intense crumpling and corrugation, and by the abundantly faulted and crushed condition to which they have been reduced.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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