EGAVE

foliation

About 0.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

foliage leafing mylonitic foliole vernation foliage leaf leaf leafule phyllotaxis prefoliation

Often followed by

of is and in planes or plane are which

Word family

foliations

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