Foliation

Quick meaning: Foliation is a noun meaning (botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

Meaning

(botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

More Meanings

1. (publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination.
2. (codicology, publishing) The numbering of the folios of a manuscript or a book.
3. (botany) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
4. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
5. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
6. The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.
7. (geology) 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.

Example Sentences

The simplest example of a foliation is provided by a single submersion F : M → N, M and N being manifolds.

The dominant strike orientation of both bedding and foliation of Vermont bedrock is north or northeasterly.

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

In sedimentary rocks, the magnetic foliation results from a combination of depositional processes and diagenetic compaction.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for foliation

Depending on context, synonyms include pagination, vernation, foliage, leafing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include foliage, leafing, mylonitic, foliole, vernation, leaf.

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