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scoriation

scoriation noun: a sloppily cut groove, furrow, or trench, characterised by the presence of refuse material from which it was cut.

Noun (1)

scoriation (plural scoriations)

  1. A sloppily cut groove, furrow, or trench, characterised by the presence of refuse material from which it was cut.
    • "The tracks of his father's foot were gone. Where they had been were now long, watercloudy scoriations resembling the sporadic course of a Lilliputian mowing machine." ~William Faulkner
  2. An anthropological term used to describe grooves or other similar markings on bullets exclusively. Scoriation is a joining of "scoring" and "striation."

Noun (2)

scoriation (plural scoriations)

  1. aphetic form of excoriation

Forms of scoriation

pluralscoriations

Origin of scoriation

The word is derived from the Latin scoria, which means slag or dross, and thus is related to the English words scoria and scorify, which both refer to the waste left over from smelting ore.

Questions about scoriation

What does scoriation mean?
Scoriation means a sloppily cut groove, furrow, or trench, characterised by the presence of refuse material from which it was cut.
What part of speech is scoriation?
Scoriation is a noun.
What is the plural of scoriation?
The plural of scoriation is scoriations.

Words near scoriation in the dictionary

  1. scoriaceous
  2. scoriae
  3. scorias
  4. scoriated
  5. scoriating
  6. scoriation
  7. scoriations
  8. scorie
  9. scories
  10. scorification
  11. scorifications

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