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scoriations

scoriations is the plural of scoriation.

Meaning of scoriation

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

Questions about scoriations

What is scoriations the plural of?
Scoriations is the plural of scoriation.

Words near scoriations in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scoriations (page history and authors); scoriation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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