plication
nounUK /plɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
Etymology From Middle French plicacion, and its source, Latin plicatio.
- But the recognition of nappes set out the research project: you need not simply throw up your hands in despair at perverse plications and ceaseless crenelations in the Alps.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 96:
- Synonyms
- plicature
- Derived terms
- omentoplication