Definitions for plication

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plication pli·ca·tion

Spelling: [plahy-key-shuh n, pli-]

IPA: /plaɪˈkeɪ ʃən, plɪ-/

Plication is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 446 anagrams from letters in plication (aciilnopt).

Definitions for plication

noun

1. the act or procedure of folding.
2. the state or quality of being folded; a fold.
3. Surgery. the folding in and suturing of tucks, so as to tighten weakened or stretched tissue. the folding of an organ, as a section of the intestine, and the attaching of it to another organ or tissue.

Origin of plication

1375-1425; late Middle English plicacioun Medieval Latin plicātiōn- (stem of plicātiō) a folding. See plicate, -ion

Examples for plication

plication, or folding, is also an important feature in the history of the earth.

Multiplicate: with many longitudinal folds or lines of plication.