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corrugation

[kawr-uh-gay-shuhn, kor-] / ˌkɔr əˈgeɪ ʃən, ˌkɒr- /


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The wall is lined with thick, vertical grooves, described by Vargas as “almost like a lattice surface because the corrugation is so deep.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

The researchers set out to determine if the corrugation of a dragonfly's wing is a secret ingredient for boosting lift.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2024

But if the order originates with a poultry producer, the boxes are going to be larger, significantly stronger in composition and corrugation and lined with a coating to prevent leakage.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

A two-hour drive from Rabaul on a road strewn with potholes and corrugation, is the rural health clinic at Warangoi, where nurses report working to the point of exhaustion in desperately under-resourced conditions.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2020

A year or so later still the tree made another change, and it now bears two or three nuts to the bur like the American chestnut, the nuts retain their light color and peculiar corrugation.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917 by Northern Nut Growers Association


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