plication
(plɪ-, plaɪˈkeɪʃən)
[a. OF. plication, -acion (Godef.), n. of action f. L. plicāre to fold.]
1. The action of folding; folded condition.
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 23 It is necessarie some lymes to han a sustentacioun & a plicacioun, þat is a foldynge. 1854 Woodward Mollusca ii. 285 The smallness of the space for the branchiæ may have been compensated by deep plication of those organs. 1886 W. Anderson Pict. Arts Japan 202 An artist of the Chinese school..may accentuate folds of drapery by a kind of shadow beneath the plication. |
2. concr. A folding, a fold.
| 1748 Richardson Clarissa lxxiii. (1811) VI. 345 The folds, as other plications have done, opened of themselves to oblige my curiosity. 1766 Parsons in Phil. Trans. LVI. 209 This bird has a plication of the aspera arteria. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet Let. i, Thy juridical brow expanding its plications. 1849 Dana Geol. App. i. (1850) 710 There are 14 to 16 plications in half an inch; and the plicæ are smooth. 1874 Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. §87 (1879) 94. |
3. Geol. The bending or folding of strata; a fold in a stratum.
| 1859 Murchison Siluria xvii. (ed. 3) 450 The plications of the strata in Belgium. 1865 Geikie Scen. & Geol. Scot. ix. 232 Plications following each other from top to bottom of the cliff. 1882 Nature XXVI 241/1 These crystalline masses underwent enormous plication and subsequent denudation. |