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lineation|lɪnɪˈeɪʃən|
[ad. L. līneātiōn-em, n. of action f. līneāre: see lineate a.]
1. The action or process of drawing lines or marking with lines; an instance of this; also, a contour or outline; quasi-concr., a marking or line on the surface (e.g. of the skin).
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. iii. (1495) 30 Angels haue noo matere nother lyneacions and shappe of body. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 21182 The vysage and the hand also, Vp-on wych Men may..Telle the condyciouns By dyvers lyneaciouns Wych ther be set. a1450Cov. Myst. xx. (Shaks. Soc.) 189 Of lynyacion that longyth to jematrye. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 197 b, Not ymagynynge in the deite ony corporall fygure or liniacyon. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 275 It is a..root, which by exsiccation hath contracted wrinkles and lineations. 1816G. Colman Br. Grins, Luminous Historian Introd. iii. (1872) 304 Nature's lineations plainly tell There's room and room enough to act them well. 1892F. Galton Finger Prints i. 5 The ridges, whose lineations appear in the finger print.
b. collect. A marking with lines; an arrangement or group of lines.
c1550Sympathising Lover in Evans Old Ballads (1784) III. xxx. 226 Her countenaunce with her lynyacion. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 101 Conchites..differing in colour, lineation and valves. a1728Woodward Hist. Fossils (1729) I. i. 32 There are in the horney Ground two white Lineations, attended with two of a pale Red. 1759B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. Oxford 392 Nothing upon it, but somewhat like a Chalice, and crooked Lineation. 1856W. B. Carpenter Microsc. §339. 596 The peculiar lineation of the surface of nacre. 1884Geikie in Nature 13 Nov. 30/2 Striated planes..covered with a fine parallel lineation.
2. A division into lines.
1853Ecclesiologist XIV. 431 There is no authority to assume one lineation [of a hymn] rather than another. 1891Pall Mall G. 2 Nov. 1/3 The large initials..disturb the lineation of the verse.
Add:3. Geol. A line-like or linear feature in rock, landscapes, etc.
1938Knopf & Ingerson Struct. Petrol. 69 An axial control of movement can be recognized in the hand specimen by a parallel linear structure, a lineation. 1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles iii. 44 The dykes are quite unfoliated at their centres, but at their margins they have a steep lineation corresponding to structures formed during a later fold episode. 1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xx. 297/2 Axial structures such as lineations and folds. 1976Physics Bull. Oct. 450/3 This..revealed that the anomalies are remarkably linear, the lineations extending for thousands of kilometres. 1990C. Pellant Rocks, Minerals & Fossils 25 Stress, directed pressure produced by folding and other movements in the Earth's crust, creates new fabrics such as lineation and cleavage which replace original structure like sedimentary bedding. |