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Definition: Corrugation |
CorrugationNoun1. A ridge on a corrugated surface. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Transverse undulations of regular spacing, sometimes appearing in unsurfaced roads under the action of traffic. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Alternating ridges and valleys manufactured according to a specified pitch. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | One of the wave shapes formed in the corrugating medium. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrangement | Noun: derangement; Verb: disorder; evection, discomposure, disturbance; disorganization, deorganization; dislocation; perturbation, interruption; shuffling; Verb: inversion; corrugation; (fold); involvement. |
Contraction | Condensation, compression, compactness; compendium; squeezing; Verb: strangulation; corrugation; astringency; astringents, sclerotics; contractility, compressibility; coarctation. |
Fold | Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication. |
Roughness | Noun: roughness; Adjective: tooth, grain, texture, ripple; asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity; arborescence; pilosity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Corrugation |
| Specialty definitions using "corrugation": Anwürgen ♦ washboarding. (references) |
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| "Corrugation and Fan" by Shawn Sutherland Commentary: "A corrugated warehouse and ventilation fan." |
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| "Corrugation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Corrugation" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
corrugation | 6 |
corrugation f machine paper s | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "corrugation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zhubrosje, rrudhje, rrudhë (cockle, crease, Crinkle, furrow, pucker, ruckle, rugosity, seam, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Arabic | تمويج (crimp, frizzing, rippling, waving), تغصين. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гънка (circumvolution, cockle, crease, doubling, fold, kink, lap, plication, pocket, pucker, rugosity, rumple, wrinkle), набръчкване, бръчка (cockle, line, plica, plication, pucker, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rugosity, rumple, seam, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Chinese | 波紋 (ripple), 槽纹. (various references) | |
Czech | svraštìní. (various references) | |
Danish | spiralribbe (helical fin, spiral fin, strip fin), sneglevinding, sneglegang, korrugering (ribbing, rippling, washboard, washboarding), bølgedannelse (washboard). (various references) | |
Dutch | wasbord (rippling), spiraalvormige groeven, ribbelvorming (rippling), golving (settle mark, settle wave, shadow, washboard, waviness). (various references) | |
Finnish | tien pinnan aaltomaisuus (washboard), poimuisuus (washboard), päällysteen aallonmuodostus (rippling), kouruuntuminen (rippling). (various references) | |
French | ondulation (cockle, cockling). (various references) | |
German | Furche (channel, drill, furrow, glyph, groove, line, rut, trench, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Greek | κυμάτωση (flute, ripple, rippling, surge), κυματοειδής αυλάκωση (washboard), ρυτίδωση (ripple), ελικοειδής νεύρωση, ελικοειδής αυλάκωση (flute, groove), αυλάκωση (striation, sulfation), αυλακώσεις (groove, indentation, keyway, multiple keys, serration, spline). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קפולים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | csíkozás (hachuring), redõ (pleat, ply, pucker, ruck, wrinkle), redőzés (ply), bordázat (baffle, bands, frame, rib, ribbing, shell), borda (costal, rib, stem, stretcher, Wale). (various references) | |
Italian | risalto a spirale, ondulazione trasversale (rippling), ondulatura (buckle, waviness), marezzatura (moire). (various references) | |
Korean | 파형 (waveform). (various references) | |
Manx | crapley (contract, contraction, knitting, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orrugationcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ondulação (curl, curling, dimple, fold, friz, frizz, popple, ripple, undulation, wave, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Russian | складка (crease, fold, lappet, plait, plica, plication, ply, ruck, tuck, wrinkle), сморщивание (contraction), рифление (fluting), морщина (cockle, crease, line, pucker, ruck, rugosity, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Scottish | sreamadh (curbing or checking by the nose, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | izolučivanje, gofriranje, žljebanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | corrugación (contraction). (various references) | |
Swedish | korrugering (rippling, washboard). (various references) | |
Turkish | kırıştırma, kırışma, kırışık (crease, Crinkle, crinkly, crisp, crispy, furrow, liny, pucker, ruck, seam, wrinkle, wrinkled, wrinkly), buruşturma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | складка (crease, flexure, plait, pleat, plica, plication, ply, ruckle, tuck, wimple, wrinkle), рифлення, вибоїна (chuck-hole, pock), зморшка (cockle, crease, crumple, pucker, rugosity, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nhăn lại, sự gấp nếp. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "corrugation": corrugations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "corrugation" (pronounced 'Cor`ru*ga"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-o-o-r-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: outroaring. | |
-2 letters: outracing. | |
-3 letters: autogiro, carrotin, couranto, courting, curating, rogation. | |
-4 letters: argotic, auction, autoing, carotin, carrion, carting, cartoon, caution, coating, contour, coranto, cornuto, courant, crating, crouton, curator, currant, curring, curtain, grantor, octagon, orating, oration, organic, outgain, outgrin, outrang, outring, outroar, rainout, rancour, roaring, rooting, routing, ruction, tarring, touraco, touring, tracing, tricorn, trucing. | |
-5 letters: acting, action. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-o-o-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: corrugations. | |
+4 letters: reconfiguration. | |
+5 letters: reconfigurations, ultrasonographic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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