from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun The act of marking or outlining with lines.
noun An outline.
noun An arrangement of lines.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun A marking by lines; disposition or arrangement of lines.
noun In zoology, one or more line-like marks on a surface; the appearance or form of a lineated surface: as, the lineation of the thorax of a fly.
noun Mensuration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun Delineation; a line or lines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun geology A linear feature in rock, often structural
noun literature The way in which line breaks are inserted in a poem
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun the act of marking or outlining with lines
noun the line that appears to bound an object
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English lineacioun, from Latin līneātiō, līneātiōn-, from līneātus, past participle of līneāre, to make straight, from līnea, thread, line; see line.]
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From Latin lineatio
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Examples
Williams's lineation is called upon to play a fundamental role in the poem.
Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing.
Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing.
But this lineation holds them over against pure banality just enough to let them emerge as capable of bearing attention and hence of becoming fascinating in their own right.
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