Difference between stellation and stellate
Definitions
adjective
- arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center
Examples
One of the many folk songs constellated around the full-scale Byzantine epic of Dhiyenis Akritas has the hero telling how he passed through ‘the mountains of Araby, the Syrian gorges’ with ‘my four-foot sword, my three-fathom spear’.
Here you can see the castellated peaks from an amazing angle.
The projection or radiation of these fragments from a central point gives the fracture a stellated or star like appearance; and hence, the name of the fracture.
