plications

Noun

plication (countable and uncountable, plural plications)

1. An act of folding.
2. A fold or pleat.
   • But the recognition of nappes set out the research project: you need not simply throw up your hands in despair at perverse plications and ceaseless crenelations in the Alps.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 96
3. A surgical procedure in which a body part is strengthened or shortened by pulling together folds of excess material, and suturing them into place.