What's the difference between crenelation and crenulation?
Crenelation
Definition:
(n.) The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aerial shots along the route – taking in the crenellated ruins of Dunluce Castle, the vertiginous Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, the basalt stacks of the Giant's Causeway, and the seaside villages of Ballycastle, Cushendun, Cushendall and Carnlough – will be a pleasant surprise for viewers who have an entirely different image of Northern Ireland.
(2) Behind the high, crenellated walls of Kigali prison, 7,000 prisoners are crammed into a space that was built to accommodate perhaps a tenth of that number.
(3) Its crenellated edges are deep purple and its eight tentacles look like soft pink coral.
(4) The most notable morphological effect of the antibiotic was ruffling or crenelation of the outer membrane, which resulted ultimately in its separation from the inner membrane.
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(6) Jamie Vardy ’s having a(nother) party: he’s going to get married at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire – actually not a castle, just a big and kind-of-oldish house with crenellations – on 25 May.
(7) We stopped at Pembroke Castle to while away a little more of the drizzle, wondering if this massive crenellated fortification from the 12th century was also, in its day, considered a monstrous carbuncle.
(8) The sexual characters of the parapodial cirri (male and female swellings, male crenellations) are always expressed on stump or regenerate according to the genetic sex.
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Crenulation
Definition:
(n.) A minute crenation.
(n.) The state of being minutely scalloped.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distinctive microwear features such as furrows, crenulations, stress lines and deep grooves, are interpretive tools that can be used in a biomechanical approach.
(2) One of these, Strigorhysis, gen. nov., possesses broadly basined molars with highly crenulated enamel which probably indicates a good deal of tough vegetable matter in its diet.
(3) Early crenulation of the acrosome could be induced by cold shock (5 degrees C, 25 minutes), but this did not decrease the incubation time required (at 37 degrees C) for completion of the normal reaction.
(4) Some of the boutons were spherical or crenulated as in the adult.
(5) In transmission electron micrographs, affected cells had intracytoplasmic and intranuclear Heinz bodies, a variety of abnormal cytoplasmic vesicles, degenerate mitochondria, absence of circumferential microtubules, abnormal shape, and crenulation of the plasma membrane.
(6) After eight, 10 and 14 days, many retinal ganglion cells displayed a chromatolytic response with dispersed Nissl granules, eccentric nuclei and the cells appeared crenulated.
(7) The acrosomes of motile fresh epididymal and ejaculated spermatozoa became crenulated after cold shock, and the percentage of spermatozoa with crenulated acrosomes increased with longer periods of cold shock and was higher when spermatozoa were cold shocked in serum than in saline.
(8) When epididymal spermatozoa were cold shocked after incubation for 4 h at 37 degrees C, the acrosomes on spermatozoa which had not undergone an acrosome reaction became swollen and elevated instead crenulated.
(9) The striated ducts consist of tall cells interlocked in a complex fashion near their bases, with numerous vertically-oriented mitochondria lodged in their basal crenulations.
(10) The reaction involved either swelling and elevation or crenulation and fragmentation of the acrosomal cap.
(11) Crenulation with subsequent fragmentation of the cap was observed during normal reactions.