foliation
IPA: foʊɫiˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
- (publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination.
- (codicology, publishing) The numbering of the folios of a manuscript or a book.
- (botany) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
- The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
- The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
- The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.
- (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.
- (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.
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Examples of "foliation" in Sentences
- Light descending in floods dissolved the separate foliation into one green mound.
- Yet given that you have made a choice of foliation you then put a flag at a point.
- This foliation represents the idea of causality (in other circumstances the absence of timelike loops).
- This rock is characterized by the foliation (Figure 1) of its mineral grains which causes it to have cleavage that is parallel.
- That picture of things only comes about if one looks at the spacetime as a foliation of spatial surfaces linked by lapse and shift functions.
- The spatial portion of the metric is well known and the solution involves spatial surfaces in a foliation where volumes contain there in are variable.
- In this rock, you get the recrystallization and foliation of quartz, feldspars, micas, and amphiboles into alternating light - and dark-colored bands.
- The compaction foliation and jointing in the red-gray and reddish ash-flow tuff to the right is roughly parallel to jointing in the granitic rock on the left, and roughly parallel to the contact.
- One way to do this is by means of additional Lorentz invariant dynamical structure, for example a suitable time-like 4-vector field, that permits the definition of a foliation of space-time into space-like hypersurfaces providing a Lorentz invariant notion of "evolving configuration" and along which nonlocal effects are transmitted.
- I thought while looking at this outcrop the last time I stopped, that there might be some faulting or shearing between the whitish layer and the upper, densest part of the welded tuff the reddish gray, bouldery, hard-looking stuff with possible shearing taken up in part in the brighter reddish zone, in which you can still see some compaction foliation.
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