English Dictionary

foliation

/fəʊlɪˈeɪʃn/

noun

(botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. / (publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination. / (botany) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.

The foliation of the rock layers indicates the direction of the geological forces.

意味（1）

(botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

意味（2）

(publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination.

意味（3）

(botany) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.

意味（4）

The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.

意味（5）

The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.

意味（6）

The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.

The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

意味（7）

(geology) 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.

Formation of alteration minerals in the host rock during deformation within the shear zone is indicated by the parallel foliation within the secondary micaceous minerals and the unmineralized host schist.

意味（8）

(topology) A set of submanifolds of a given manifold, each of which is of lower dimension than it, but which, taken together, are coextensive with it.

Historically, the formalism which first arose for the material we discuss is that of measured foliations in surfaces.