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Definition of Foliated

1. Adjective. Ornamented with foliage or foils. "A foliated capital"

2. Adjective. (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata.

Definition of Foliated

1. a. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.

Definition of Foliated

1. Adjective. (context: geology of a rock) Having a structure of thin layers ¹

2. Adjective. (architecture) Decorated with foliage ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Foliated

1. foliate [v] - See also: foliate

Medical Definition of Foliated

1. 1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell. 2. Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch. 3. Characterised by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure. 4. Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose. 5. Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver. Foliated telluium. See Nagyagite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foliated

foleys folia folia cerebelli folia linguae foliaceous foliage foliage leaf foliage volume foliaged foliagelike

foliages folial foliar foliate foliate papillae foliated (current term) foliates foliating foliation foliations

foliature folic folic acid folic acid antagonist folic acid antagonists folic acid conjugate folic acid deaminase folic acid deficiency folic acid deficiency anaemia folic acid oxidase

Literary usage of Foliated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1893)
"... and distinctly foliated structure. Both in the massive and in the coarsely-banded gneisses abundant pegmatite vein«, occur, varying in width from a few ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"Joseph Gross, illuminated letters, foliated capitals ; date, April 20, ... D, Title page to manuscript hymn book, name Sarah Wismer ; foliated capitals, ..."

3. Elements of Mineralogy by Richard Kirwan (1810)
"Fracture foliated, straight, but mostly somewhat curved. Fragments 0, 1. ... Its fracture partly fine splintery, and partly foliated. ..."

4. Tables for the Determination of Common Minerals Chiefly by Their Physical by William Otis Crosby (1895)
"The foliated structure, on the other hand, is simply an easy splitting in parallel planes due to very perfect cleavage in one direction. ..."

5. A History of Architectural Development by Frederick Moore Simpson (1909)
"chiefly to window lights and to both pierced and sunk wall arcading, they are little more than shaped heads, and the arches are said to be " foliated," or ..."

6. The Student's Manual of Geology by Joseph Beete Jukes (1872)
"Production of foliated Rocks by Metamorphism.—Foliation has been already (Chapter X.) described as a texture superinduced upon stratified rocks, ..."

7. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by Robert Jameson (1820)
"This Species is divided into four subspecies, viz. foliated Red Copper-ore, Compact Red Copper-ore, Capillary Red Copper-ore, and Tile-ore. ..."

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