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Definition of Foliation
1. Noun. (botany) the process of forming leaves.
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Generic synonyms: Development, Growing, Growth, Maturation, Ontogenesis, Ontogeny
Derivative terms: Foliate
2. Noun. (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock.
3. Noun. (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament.
Generic synonyms: Architectural Ornament
Category relationships: Architecture
Derivative terms: Foliate, Foliate
4. Noun. The production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves.
5. Noun. The work of coating glass with metal foil.
Definition of Foliation
1. n. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
Definition of Foliation
1. Noun. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. ¹
2. Noun. The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud. ¹
3. Noun. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina. ¹
4. Noun. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses. ¹
5. Noun. The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. ¹
6. Noun. 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. ¹
7. Noun. (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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foliation
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Medical Definition of Foliation
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1. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
2. The manner in which the young leaves are dispoed within the bud. " 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. The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Foliation
Literary usage of Foliation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America by George Brettingham Sowerby, William Lonsdale, Edward Forbes, Charles Darwin (1897)
"PLUTONIC AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS:—CLEAVAGE AND Foliation. ... at the end of the
chapter I will sum up all the facts on cleavage and foliation,—to which I ..."
2. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1903)
"Production of Foliation.—The most extreme form of contact-meta- morphism has been
reserved for the last part of this section. In this case not only have new ..."
3. Elements of Geology; Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1865)
"In order to estimate fairly the merits of this question, we must first define
what is meant by the terms cleavage and foliation. There are four distinct ..."
4. A Manual of Elementary Geology; Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1865)
"Definition of joints, slaty cleavage and foliation—Supposed causes of time
structures—Mechanical theory of cleavage—Condensation and elongation u; ..."
5. Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1882)
"2 the foliation is parallel to these bedding planes, and therefore in all likelihood
... In the other cases the foliation crosses the main lines of bedding, ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1855)
"On the Foliation of some Metamorphic Rocks in Scotland. By Professor EDWARD
FORBES, FRS It was of great importance to geologists to distinguish between ..."
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