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Foliation   /fˌoʊliˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Foliation

noun
1.
(botany) the process of forming leaves.  Synonym: leafing.
2.
(geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock.
3.
(architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament.  Synonym: foliage.
4.
The production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves.
5.
The work of coating glass with metal foil.





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"Foliation" Quotes from Famous Books



... pyramidal covering. The term is supposed to be derived from the resemblance to a shepherd's crook. Crypt—a vault beneath a church, generally beneath the chancel only, and sometimes used for the exhibition of relics. Cusp—an ornament used in the tracery of windows, screens, etc., to form foliation. Dormer—an upright window placed on a sloping roof, giving light to the chambers next the roof. Fillet—a small square band used on the face of mouldings. Finial—the ornament which finishes the top of ...
— Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys • Dugald Butler and Herbert Story
... how I should answer. The cusped arch, too, was it actually not intended to imitate vegetation? Mr. Ruskin seems to think so. He says that it is merely the special application to the arch of the great ornamental system of foliation, which, "whether simple as in the cusped arch, or complicated as in tracery, arose out of the love of leafage. Not that the form of the arch is intended to imitate a leaf, "but to be invested with the same characters of beauty which the designer ...
— Literary and General Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley
... Cleavage and Joints. Supposed Causes of these Structures. Crystalline Theory of Cleavage. Mechanical Theory of Cleavage. Condensation and Elongation of slate Rocks by lateral Pressure. Lamination of some volcanic Rocks due to Motion. Whether the Foliation of the crystalline Schists be usually parallel with the original Planes of Stratification. Examples in Norway and Scotland. Causes of Irregularity in ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell


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