CRENATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

Synonyms:

crenation; crenature; crenel; crenelle; scallop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("crenation" is a kind of...):

curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)

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