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- Foliation - n. - The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
- Foliation - n. - The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud.
- Foliation - n. - The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
- Foliation - n. - The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
- Foliation - n. - The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
- Foliation - 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.
- Multifoil - n. - An ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils.
- Cinquefoil - n. - An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc.
- Septfoil - n. - An ornamental foliation having seven lobes. Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil.
- Circinate - a. - Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.
- Trefoil - n. - An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
- Quarterfoil - n. - An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.