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Foliation

//fəʊlɪˈeɪʃn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the work of coating glass with metal foil wordnet
  3. 3
    The process of forming into pages; pagination. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves wordnet
  5. 5
    The numbering of the folios of a manuscript or a book. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament wordnet
  2. 7
    The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock wordnet
  4. 9
    The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    (botany) the process of forming leaves wordnet
  6. 11
    The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses. countable, uncountable
  7. 12
    The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. countable, uncountable

    "The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door."

  8. 13
    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. countable, uncountable

    "Formation of alteration minerals in the host rock during deformation within the shear zone is indicated by the parallel foliation within the secondary micaceous minerals and the unmineralized host schist."

  9. 14
    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. countable, uncountable

    "Historically, the formalism which first arose for the material we discuss is that of measured foliations in surfaces."

Etymology

From French foliation, from Latin folium (“leaf”).

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