"foliation" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /fəʊlɪˈeɪʃn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-foliation.wav [Southern-England] Forms: foliations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From French foliation, from Latin folium (“leaf”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|foliation}} French foliation, {{uder|en|la|folium||leaf}} Latin folium (“leaf”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} foliation (countable and uncountable, plural foliations)
  1. (botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Botany
    Sense id: en-foliation-en-noun-JA7s1xqO Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
  2. (publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Publishing Synonyms (process of forming pages): pagination
    Sense id: en-foliation-en-noun-muixftwc Topics: media, publishing Disambiguation of 'process of forming pages': 33 52 2 2 2 3 2 2 4
  3. (codicology, publishing) The numbering of the folios of a manuscript or a book. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Publishing
    Sense id: en-foliation-en-noun-DI9kt9LD Topics: codicology, history, human-sciences, media, publishing, sciences
  4. (botany) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Botany
    Sense id: en-foliation-en-noun-xN6ku8bK Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
  5. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-foliation-en-noun-C-RMxAbm
  6. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-foliation-en-noun-xnZGe~p1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 3 9 8 2 22 23 12 14
  7. The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-foliation-en-noun-OHH71IwO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 3 9 8 2 22 23 12 14
  8. (geology) 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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Geology
    Sense id: en-foliation-en-noun-juOBqR0h Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 3 9 8 2 22 23 12 14 Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
  9. (topology) 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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Topology Translations (topology: a set of subspaces coextensive with a manifold): 叶层结构 (yè céng jiégòu) (Chinese), foliering [common-gender] (Danish), feuilletage [masculine] (French), Blätterung [feminine] (German), folheação [feminine] (Portuguese), листоватость (listovatostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), folijacija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), foliación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-foliation-en-noun-xw0mQEpJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 3 9 8 2 22 23 12 14 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 7 4 8 10 3 15 15 15 23 Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology Disambiguation of 'topology: a set of subspaces coextensive with a manifold': 4 4 4 4 2 9 6 8 59
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (growth and arrangement of leaves): vernation Derived forms: oblique foliation Related terms: defoliation, exfoliate, exfoliation, foliate, folio, folium, refoliation, cleavage [geology, geography, natural-sciences], lineation [geology, geography, natural-sciences]
Disambiguation of 'growth and arrangement of leaves': 28 5 4 24 8 5 4 11 11

Noun [French]

Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-foliation.wav Forms: foliations [plural]
Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} foliation f (plural foliations)
  1. (botany) foliation Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Botany
    Sense id: en-foliation-fr-noun-l59ZuPJg Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
  2. (geology) foliation Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Geology
    Sense id: en-foliation-fr-noun-l59ZuPJg1 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2004, F. Martín-Hernández, C. M. Lüneburg, C. Aubourg, M. Jackson, “Magnetic fabric: methods and applications - an introduction”, in Magnetic Fabric: Methods and Applications, Geological Society of London, page 3",
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