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noun
The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
The process of forming into pages; pagination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: media, publishing
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noun
The numbering of the folios of a manuscript or a book.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: codicology, history, human-sciences, media, publishing, sciences
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noun
The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology
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noun
the work of coating glass with metal foil
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: application, coating, covering
noun
the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: production
noun
(architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: foliage
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Broader terms: architectural ornament
noun
(geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: stratification
noun
(botany) the process of forming leaves
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: leafing
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Broader terms: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
History
From French foliation, from Latin folium (“leaf”).
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
