"foliation" Definition

Definitions for the word "foliation" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

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