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Definition of Corrugations
1. corrugation [n] - See also: corrugation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corrugations
Literary usage of Corrugations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"The corrugations in the center and outer border need not_ extend entirely around
the mat ; but in each of the sections a depression in one section may be ..."
2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1866)
"The corrugations all over the Sun are beautiful and coarse, resembling small ...
In a multitude of places the corrugations are quite detached, like luminous ..."
3. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1857)
"The interior surface of this frame is moulded into vertical corrugations, ...
The bottoms and edges of these corrugations afford superior bearing and ..."
4. Physics of the Earth's Crust by Osmond Fischer (1881)
"... negatived—The fourth possibly the true one—The fact of compression certain,
and the duplex character of the corrugations most probable—The consequences ..."
5. Philosophical Transactions by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1801)
"OF corrugations. corrugations consist of Elevations and Depressions. Dec. 23, 1799.
The corrugations have a mottled appearance. I see the figure of the dark ..."
6. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1841)
"This specimen has been corroded with acid, and consequently has lost the superficial
corrugations and in his admirable Monograph on Crinoidea, p. 97. ..."
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