foliation
/fəʊlɪˈeɪʃn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.
Countable; Uncountable
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.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "The dominant strike orientation of both bedding and foliation of Vermont bedrock is north or northeasterly."
- "They show that curved inclusion trails may form even with no coupling, as the porphyroblast overgrows foliation that is deflected around it."
- "In sedimentary rocks, the magnetic foliation results from a combination of depositional processes and diagenetic compaction."
- "Historically, the formalism which first arose for the material we discuss is that of measured foliations in surfaces."