different between plicature vs plication

English

From Latin plicatura, from plicare (“to fold”).

plicature (plural plicatures)

A fold; a doubling; a plication.
- 1642, Henry More, Psychozoia
  For no man can unfold The many plicatures so closely prest

plic?t?re

From Middle French plicacion, and its source, Latin plicatio.

plication (countable and uncountable, plural plications)

(now chiefly biology, geology) An act of folding. [from 15th c.]
(now chiefly biology, geology) A fold or pleat. [from 18th c.]
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 96:
  But the recognition of nappes set out the research project: you need not simply throw up your hands in despair at perverse plications and ceaseless crenelations in the Alps.
(surgery) A surgical procedure in which a body part is strengthened or shortened by pulling together folds of excess material, and suturing them into place. [from 20th c.]

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