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How to pronounce lineament in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms character, quality
Type of dimension, attribute, property
Has types texture
Type Words
Synonyms feature
Type of body part
Has types cheek, forehead, jaw, brow, temple, chin, jowl, mentum


his lineaments were very regular.

Examples of lineament

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The remainder of the strike length of this lineament has never been drill tested.
From the forbes.com
There was no familiar lineament smells or man talk or guffaws for them.
From the washingtontimes.com
The main gold target identified is a 12 kilometre-long northwest-trending structural lineament that is coincident with numerous artisanal gold workings.
From the foxbusiness.com
This lineament coincides closely with the regional contact between the greenstone sequence and a large intrusive body in the eastern part of the belt.
From the foxbusiness.com
The Burnie Formation followed in the Tonian period south east of the lineament with greywacke and slaty mudstone, and also some basic pillow lavas.
From the en.wikipedia.org
She used several kinds of satellite images and several data-processing techniques, overlaying the results to find areas of coincidence between lineament interpretations from the different images.
From the sciencedaily.com
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  • Quality: a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands"
  • Feature: the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin; "an expression of pleasure crossed his features"; "his lineaments were very regular"
  • A lineament is a linear feature in a landscape which is an expression of an underlying geological structure such as a fault. Typically a lineament will comprise a fault-aligned valley, a series of fault or fold-aligned hills, a straight coastline or indeed a combination of these features. ...
  • (Lineaments) In Euclidean geometry, a line is a straight curve. When geometry is used to model the real world, lines are used to represent straight objects with negligible width and height. ...
  • Any distinctive shape or line etc; A distinctive feature that characterizes something, especially the parts of the face of an individual
  • A linear (relatively straight) topographic feature or features such as a fault, line of dense vegetation, or a chain of aligned volcanoes.
  • A linear feature, or an alignment of surficial features that may reflect control by the underlying geology. ...
  • (n): feature, esp. face. FS (8-Rich3, Rich2, MV, R&J, Ado, AsYou, TNK); Spenser Shep Cal; Jonson Cynthia.
  • Any long natural feature on the surface of the earth, such as a fault, esp as revealed by aerial photography.