lineation

[ lin-ee-ey-shuhn ]

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noun

an act or instance of marking with or tracing by lines.
a division into lines.

an outline or delineation.
an arrangement or group of lines.

Origin of lineation

1350–1400; Middle English lyneacion<Late Latin līneātiōn- (stem of līneātiō) the drawing of a line, Latin: direction, line. See lineate, -ion

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How to use lineation in a sentence

There are two methods of observing systematically the lineation patterns.
Dactylography | Henry Faulds
In death the face was placid, intelligent, without ignoble lineation—the face of the man they had known at college.
The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories | Gertrude Atherton

British Dictionary definitions for lineation

lineation

/ (ˌlɪnɪˈeɪʃən) /

noun

the act of marking with lines
an arrangement of or division into lines

an outline or contour
any linear arrangement involving rocks or minerals, such as a parallel arrangement of elongated mineral grains

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