crumpling

---

Verb

1. present participle of crumple#English|crumple

Noun

crumpling (plural crumplings)

1. The act by which something crumples.
2. A crumpled shape or structure.
   • 1905, James Geikie, Structural and Field Geology: For Students of Pure and Applied Science

     When strata are so unsymmetrically and abundantly folded that it becomes difficult or impossible to trace out the individual flexures and crumplings — the whole forming an irregular complex of folds — they are said to be contorted […]

---

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.006