grow leaves; "the tree foliated in Spring" number the pages of a book or manuscript coat or back with metal foil; "foliate glass" decorate with leaves hammer into thin flat foils; "foliate metal" (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves; "`foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate'" ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a foliated capital
(often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves; "`foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate'"
(especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves; "`foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate'"
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
Planar arrangement of structural or textural features in any rock type, but particularly that resulting from the alignment of constituent mineral grains of a metamorphic rock along straight or wavy planes. Foliation commonly occurs parallel to original bedding, but it may not be obviously related to any other structural direction. Foliation is exhibited most prominently by sheety minerals, such as mica or chlorite
the work of coating glass with metal foil the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock (botany) the process of forming leaves
The arrangement of a set of minerals in parallel, sheet-like layers that lie perpendicular to the flattened plane of a rock Occurs in metamorphic rocks on which directed pressure has been exerted
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
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
A decoration of a manifold in which the manifold is partitioned into sheets of some lower dimension, and the sheets are locally parallel (More technically, the foliated manifold is locally homeomorphic to a vector space decorated by cosets of a subspace)