Foliation

What do we mean by foliation?

The state of being in leaf. noun

Decoration with sculpted or painted foliage. noun

Decoration of an opening with cusps and foils, as in Gothic tracery. noun

The act, process, or product of forming metal into thin leaf or foil. noun

The act or process of coating glass with metal foil. noun

The process of numbering consecutively the leaves of a book or manuscript. noun

The leaves so numbered. noun

The set of layers visible in many metamorphic rocks as a result of the flattening and stretching of mineral grains during metamorphism. noun

The leafing of plants; vernation; the disposition of the nascent leaves within the bud; also, leafage; foliage. noun

A leaf or scale. noun

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

The act or operation of spreading foil over the surface of a piece of glass to form a mirror. noun

The state of being foliaceous or foliated. noun

In geology, an arrangement of the constituent minerals of a rock in thinly lamellar or often scale-like forms, the result of which is that the mass splits easily in a certain definite direction. noun

In architecture, enrichment with ornamental cusps or groups of cusps, as in the tracery of medieval windows; foils collectively; feathering. noun

Arrangement by leaves; specifically, a numbering of the leaves of a book instead of the pages. noun

The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. noun

The manner in which the young leaves are dispo�ed within the bud. noun

The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

The process of forming into pages; pagination.

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.

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.

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.

Words that are spelled similarly to foliation:
foliation, filiation, volition, volation, formation, collation, colation, exfoliation, spoliation, solation, taliation, fellation, feriation, defoliation, solvation, eolation, foliating, volitation, friation, nolition, falcation, biliation, ciliation, floriation, foetation, lociation, foveation, foliations.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word foliation:
foliated, submersion, taut, metamorphic, torus, gneiss, grained, cleavage, manifold, shearing, layering, deformation, tangent, planar, shear, maximal, transverse, shortening, oblique, tectonic, deformed, irrational, mica, folding, minerals, rocks, fabric, perpendicular, leaf, theorem, sedimentary, null, bundle, planes, compact, fold, faults, orientation, geometric, morse, plane, vector, oriented, mineral, finite, metric, strain, formula, linear, intersection, alignment, leaves, fault, parallel, dimension, integral, smooth, curve, angle, define, thin, preferred, stress, exists, direction, solid, belt, circle, measure, let, sense, condition, occur, boundary, flow, defined, rock, structure, growth, occurs, covering, mathematics, flat, typical, determine, function, forms, begins, connected, space, structures, completely, zone, resulting, fields, associated, exist, commonly, surface, whose.

Words that rhyme with foliation:
communication, information, operation, education, implication, station, innovation, organization, application, foundation, consideration, accommodation, association, relation, connotation, aberration, corporation, aspiration, orientation, remuneration, consternation, correlation, alliteration, administration, trepidation, obligation, discrimination, generation, reconciliation, inspiration, situation, revelation, evaluation, determination, civilization, nation, vacation, collaboration, radiation, motivation, integration, abomination, precipitation, appreciation, gentrification, dissertation, collocation, designation, interpretation, compensation, ramification, conversation, configuration, proliferation, expectation, manifestation, indignation, litigation, cooperation, notation, inclination, pronunciation, anticipation, deviation, implementation, approbation, sensation, altercation, constellation, affirmation, remediation, reputation, transportation, vocation, obfuscation, representation, medication, transformation, translation, conservation, adaptation, presentation, population, conflagration, reservation, dedication, citation, salvation, rehabilitation, location, meditation, preparation, observation, segregation, articulation, variation, abbreviation, quotation, edification, mitigation.

Adjectives that are often used to describe foliation:
regional, mylonitic, strong, main, axial, penetrative, developed, metamorphic, weak, original, secondary, gneissic, dominant, modern, primary, second, distinct, earlier, early, plane, vertical, magmatic, parallel, prominent, pervasive, internal, marked, pronounced, total, older, faint, magnetic, steep, planar, dipping, incipient, tectonic, gothic, horizontal, principal, taut, characteristic, medieval, slight, crude, compositional, cataclastic, double, subhorizontal, subvertical, existing, continuous, complete, scaly, conspicuous, external, cerebellar, intense, rude, preferred, singular, earliest, younger, later, ornamental, striking, trending, arabic, coarse, lying, spaced, linear, cleavage, visible, longitudinal, preexisting, composite, indistinct, defined, folded, mesoscopic, rough, oblique, schistose, rich.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective foliation:
planes, relationships, structure.

Consonant match to foliation:
filiation.

Words that sound like foliation:
foliation, filiation, affiliation, fellation, felician, defoliation, palliation, ciliation, felicia, flexion, filtration, flection, flotation, fluxion, floatation, felisha, fication, affiliations, folium, phonation, flammation, phaeacian, fasciation, -fication, solvation, volition, volation, spoliation, folacin, folgen, foundation, formation, physician, fixation, foliage, fellatio, flirtation, fallacious, phoenician, folden, exfoliation, foliate, philemon, folia, fulmination, fellowman, folan, phylicia, fully grown, fliegen, fundacion, flash on, fleeman, foliaged, field ration, flewellen, falasha, fire nation, phyllium, afflation, phenician, feneration, fleeten.