Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: foliation
IPA transcription: [f,oʊli'eɪʃən]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: foliation
    Meaning: the work of coating glass with metal foil
  • Synonyms: foliation
    Meaning: the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves
  • Synonyms: foliation, foliage
    Meaning: (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament
  • Synonyms: foliation
    Meaning: (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock
  • Synonyms: foliation, leafing
    Meaning: (botany) the process of forming leaves
Usage examples
  • FOLIATION.
  • THE CRYSTALLINE SCHISTS, representing the finer types of foliation, consist of thin, parallel, crystalline leaves, which are often remarkably crumpled.
  • Of this structure, called FOLIATION, we may distinguish two types,--a coarser feldspathic type, and a fine type in which other minerals than feldspar predominate.
  • The fact of change is seen in their hardness arid cementation, their more or less complete recrystallization, and their foliation; but the change is often so complete that no trace of their original structure and mineral composition remains to tell whether the rocks from which they were derived were sedimentary or igneous, or to what variety of either of these classes they belonged.