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English
Etymology
From Latin lineatio.
Noun
lineation (countable and uncountable, plural lineations)
- (geology) A linear feature in rock, often structural
- magnetic lineations
- (literature) The way in which line breaks are inserted in a poem
2001, Shira Wolosky, The Art of Poetry, →ISBN, pages 26–27: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.
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