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noun
Foliation  n.  
1.
The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
2.
The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud. " The... foliation must be in relation to the stem."
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.
(Arch.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
6.
(Geol.) 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.





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"Foliation" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Foliation" :   architecture, growing, covering, application, maturation, botany, foliate, stratification, leafing, geology, architectural ornament, ontogeny, production, phytology, ontogenesis, coating


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