Foliation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The state of being in leaf.
  • n. Decoration with sculpted or painted foliage.
  • n. Architecture Decoration of an opening with cusps and foils, as in Gothic tracery.
  • n. The act, process, or product of forming metal into thin leaf or foil.
  • n. The act or process of coating glass with metal foil.
  • n. The process of numbering consecutively the leaves of a book or manuscript.
  • n. The leaves so numbered.
  • n. Geology The layered structure common to metamorphic rocks.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
  • n. The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
  • n. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
  • n. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
  • n. The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
  • n. The manner in which the young leaves are dispo�ed within the bud.
  • n. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
  • n. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
  • n. The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The leafing of plants; vernation; the disposition of the nascent leaves within the bud; also, leafage; foliage.
  • n. A leaf or scale.
  • n. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, or foil.
  • n. The act or operation of spreading foil over the surface of a piece of glass to form a mirror.
  • n. The state of being foliaceous or foliated.
  • n. In geology, an arrangement of the constituent minerals of a rock in thinly lamellar or often scale-like forms, the result of which is that the mass splits easily in a certain definite direction.
  • n. In architecture, enrichment with ornamental cusps or groups of cusps, as in the tracery of medieval windows; foils collectively; feathering.
  • n. Arrangement by leaves; specifically, a numbering of the leaves of a book instead of the pages.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the work of coating glass with metal foil
  • n. the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves
  • n. (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock
  • n. (botany) the process of forming leaves
  • n. (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament
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    tracer/y   
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    foil    leafage    leafing   
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