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FOLIATION
foliation
(noun) the work of coating glass with metal foil
foliation
(noun) the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves
foliation, foliage
(noun) (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament
foliation
(noun) (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock
foliation, leafing
(noun) (botany) the process of forming leaves
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
foliation (countable and uncountable, plural foliations)
(botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
(publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination.
(botany) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.
(geology) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of being divided into plates or layers, due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.
(topology) A set of submanifolds of a given manifold, each of which is of lower dimension than it, but which, taken together, are coextensive with it.
Synonyms
• (process of forming pages): pagination
• (growth and arrangement of leaves): vernation
Source: Wiktionary
Fo"li*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. foliation.]
1. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
2. The manner in which the young leaves are dispo The . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem. De Quincey.
3. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
4. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
5. (Arch.)
Definition: The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
6. (Geol.)
Definition: The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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