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Definition of Streakiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Streakiness
Literary usage of Streakiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"... found in which a distinct streakiness has been developed owing to variations
in the differentiation of the original molten FIo. 8. ..."
2. Annals of Ophthalmology (1904)
"Vision in the left eye was 5/15 with a general haziness and horizontal streakiness
across all the letters of the test types. The vision of the right eye was ..."
3. The Intellectual Observer (1868)
"The dark streakiness was " more intermixed with light stripes, which seem to be
the streaks of ... "Dark streakiness seems now, in a very changed aspect, ..."
4. Proceedings of the International Conference on Aerial Navigation, Held in (1894)
"This variable velocity—its " streakiness," as I prefer to call it—has long been
known, although it has not been described in scientific literature. ..."
5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"There's nothing wrong,' says Dowse, sitting on the platform outside the Light,
and keeping one eye very watchful on the streakiness of the tide, ..."
6. Many Inventions by Rudyard Kipling (1893)
"There's nothing wrong," says Dowse, sitting on the platform outside the Light,
and keeping one eye very watchful on the streakiness of the tide, ..."
7. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1905)
"To return to streakiness, Wainwright is the cleverest chap I know (bar one whom
it would not become rne to mention) ; but his love of punning leads people ..."
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