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corrugations

corrugations is the plural of corrugation.

Meaning of corrugation

Noun

corrugation (countable and uncountable, plural corrugations)

  1. The process of corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
    • According to the pilot, ships were taking hard punishment in the storm. But from this altitude the corrugations of the seas looked no higher to the eye than the ridges of your palate feel to the tongue.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, pages 391–92
  2. washboarding (the appearance of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road)

Questions about corrugations

What is corrugations the plural of?
Corrugations is the plural of corrugation.

Words near corrugations in the dictionary

  1. corrugated lens
  2. corrugated lenses
  3. corrugates
  4. corrugating
  5. corrugation
  6. corrugations
  7. corrugator
  8. corrugator cutis ani
  9. corrugator supercilii
  10. corrugatores
  11. corrugatores superciliorum

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