alationEtymologyBorrowed from French, from Latin alatus (“winged”).alation means the state of being winged. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounThe state of being winged.A wing or wing-like structure.“Sculpture of strong wing-like structures or alations, initiated first below the smooth nuclear whorls as broad and somewhat flattened axial ridges, which on the sixth whorl become slightly oblique and expanded […]”