Definition:
- (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.
Compare foliation with other words:
filiation vs. foliation
foliation vs. mobile
foliation vs. lineation
circination vs. foliation
fissility vs. foliation
foliation vs. lamination
foliation vs. site
exfoliate vs. foliation
dimension vs. foliation
coextensive vs. foliation
foliation vs. manifold
foliation vs. set
foliation vs. pressure
bedding vs. foliation
foliation vs. mineral
foliation vs. transverse
foliation vs. slaty
foliation vs. hornblende
foliation vs. mica
constituent vs. foliation
cleavage vs. foliation
foliation vs. slab
foliation vs. rock
crystalline vs. foliation
foliation vs. ornament
foliation vs. quatrefoil
foliation vs. trefoil
enrichment vs. foliation
foliation vs. quicksilver
foliation vs. tin
amalgam vs. foliation
foliation vs. lamina
foil vs. foliation
foliation vs. plate
foliation vs. metal
bud vs. foliation
foliation vs. form
foliation vs. leaf
exfoliation vs. foliation
foliation vs. layering