crenation

1. 1.

   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.)

   Synonymsscallopcrenaturecrenelcrenelle

   Broadercurve

Other forms of crenation

plural

crenations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crenation

What does crenation mean?

crenation means "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.)".

How many syllables are in crenation?

crenation has 4 syllables: cre-na-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for crenation?

Close synonyms include scallop, crenature, crenel, crenelle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crenation a common word?

crenation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.