plication

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One new ap plication which has already been revealed is the use of radar with antiaircraft guns to direct fire.

From Time Magazine Archive

His research, he says, has practical ap plication right now.

From Time Magazine Archive

As regards its origin, the author regards it as a "plication hollow," or a trough produced by the formation of two mountain ridges, afterward modified by glacial agency.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 by Various

Movements of the earth's crust, plication of strata, origin of mountains, earthquakes, etc.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various

Multiplicate: with many longitudinal folds or lines of plication.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.