| Library / English Dictionary |
FOLIATION
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The work of coating glass with metal foil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("foliation" is a kind of...):
application; coating; covering (the work of applying something)
Derivation:
foliate (coat or back with metal foil)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("foliation" is a kind of...):
production (the act or process of producing something)
Derivation:
foliate (hammer into thin flat foils)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament
Synonyms:
foliage; foliation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("foliation" is a kind of...):
architectural ornament ((architecture) something added to a building to improve its appearance)
Domain category:
architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)
Derivation:
foliate (decorate with leaves)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("foliation" is a kind of...):
stratification (forming or depositing in layers)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
Sense 5
Meaning:
(botany) the process of forming leaves
Synonyms:
foliation; leafing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("foliation" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Derivation:
foliate (grow leaves)
