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lineation

noun

Etymology

From Latin lineatio.

  1. derived from lineatio

Definitions

  1. A linear feature in rock, often structural

    • magnetic lineations

  2. The way in which line breaks are inserted in a poem

    • Lineation is very much a matter of syntax, organizing the poem's grammar across its lines in ways significant and central to the poem's meaning.

The neighborhood

Derived

megalineation, mislineation, relineation, sublineation

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lineation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA