corrugated

adjectiveC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Corrugated means shaped into ridges and grooves. Shed roofs, and the middle layer of a cardboard box.

The ridges are structural rather than decorative, since folding a flat sheet enormously increases its stiffness in one direction, which is why corrugated iron roofs a shed with almost no supporting frame. Corrugated cardboard uses the same trick with paper. The word comes from a Latin root about wrinkling. Corrugated iron is one of the most widely used building materials in the world.

Definitions of corrugated

1adjectivecorrugatedShaped into parallel ridges and grooves for strength.C2
“The roof was corrugated iron and it roared in the rain.”

Where it comes from

Latin
corrūgātus
English
corrugate
English, today
corrugated

Built from

rūga · Latin — wrinkle, crease

corrugate The verb is first attested in 1620, the adjective in 1745; Latin corrūgātus, perfect passive participle of Latin corrūgō (“to wrinkle, corrugate”) (see -ate and -ate), from con- + rūga (“wrinkle, crease”) + -ō. Cognate with Spanish acurrucar (“to snuggle; to curl up due to cold; to huddle”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 25 of A Man Called Ove.

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corrugated in the wild

Corrugated fiberboard, corrugated cardboard, or corrugate is a type of paper packaging material consisting of a fluted corrugated sheet and one or two flat linerboards.
Corrugated fiberboard
Corrugated (also called pleated) paper was patented in England in 1856, but corrugated boxboard for use in shipping material was not patented until 1871.
Corrugated fiberboard
Boxes may be made of a variety of materials, both durable (such as wood and metal) and non-durable (such as corrugated fiberboard and paperboard).
Box
The term cardboard may refer to a variety of heavy paper-like materials, including card stock, corrugated fiberboard, and paperboard.
Cardboard box
Commonly produced items using this process include gaskets, labels, tokens, corrugated boxes, and envelopes.
Die cutting (web)

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