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GLACIAL STRIATION

Specialty Definition: GLACIAL STRIATION

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Geography

One of the series of long, delicate, finely cut, commonly straight and parallel furrows or lines inscribed on a bed rock surface by the rasping and rubbing of rock fragments embedded at the base of a moving glacier, usually oriented in the direction of ice movement. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: GLACIAL STRIATION

Language Translations for "GLACIAL STRIATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

skurestribe (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gletsjerkras (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

uurre (furrow, groove). (various references)

   

French

  

strie glaciaire (glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria), marque glaciaire (glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria). (various references)

   

German

  

glaziale Schürfmarken (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria), glaziale Kratzer (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γραμμή προστριβής παγετώνα (striation), απόξεση παγετώνα (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria). (various references)

   

Italian

  

striature glaciali (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acialglay iationstray

   

Portuguese

  

estrias glaciares (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

grieta glaciar (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria), fisura glaciar (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

räffla (chamfer, channel, furrow, groove, knurl, mill, rib, rifle, rifling), isräffla (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GLACIAL STRIATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-g-i-i-i-l-l-n-o-r-s-t-t"

-3 letters: rationalistic.

-4 letters: scintillator.

-5 letters: agitational, antilogical, castigation, glaciations, lactational, litigations, logistician, oscillating, rationalist, saltatorial, scarlatinal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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