Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Spread or beaten out into a thin plate or leaf.
- Covered with a thin plate or foil.
- Consisting of plates or laminæ; resembling or in the form of a plate; lamellar: as, a foliated structure.
- In art: Decorated with leaf-shaped ornaments, or with ornaments whose disposition and form are suggestive of foliage. Cut into leaf-shaped divisions or irregularities of outline.
- In architecture, containing foils: as, a foliated arch.
- In heraldry, decorated with foliations or lobes; growing into or decorated with natural leaves.
- In music, having notes added above or below: said of a plain-song melody.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having leaves, or leaflike projections.
- adjective (Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils.
- adjective (Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia.
- adjective (Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
- adjective Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
- adjective (Min.) See
Nagyagite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective geology, of a rock Having a
structure of thinlayers - adjective architecture Decorated with
foliage
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
- adjective ornamented with foliage or foils
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Examples
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It is rarely found as crystals, but is commonly found as what mineralogists describe as foliated masses.
Molybdenum 2008
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But thefe precious flones» which are found in a kind of foliated granit, are the fame coarfe kind that are generally found in fimilar rocks.
Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793 1797
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Built to support logs in the fireplace and poised atop delicately foliated bases, each displays a golden dromedary with neck arched languidly backwards.
At the Frick, Dreams of Ottoman Treasures Melik Kaylan 2011
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Built to support logs in the fireplace and poised atop delicately foliated bases, each displays a golden dromedary with neck arched languidly backwards.
At the Frick, Dreams of Ottoman Treasures Melik Kaylan 2011
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It was here that in 1907 Proust studied the facade's foliated tracery, illuminated by Agostinelli's headlamps.
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Grogan Fault, along which much of the main channel of Redwood Creek flows, is a major structural feature within the park, separating well foliated meta-sedimentary schists and meta-basalts on the south-west of Redwood Creek from the unmetamorphosed sedimentary rocks of the Franciscan to the north-east.
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Manuscripts are usually foliated, where each leaf is give a number.
Archive 2008-07-01 Dafydd 2008
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Manuscripts are usually foliated, where each leaf is give a number.
Durham Cathedral Library, MS A II 10 Dafydd 2008
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As far as I can discern, these are foliated or (roughly speaking) “wrapped” objects akin to the “reel” referred to above; but the Wikipedia article on them is rather terse and formal and not very illuminating.
The Arrow of Time in Scientific American Sean 2008
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Think of spacetime as a series of spatial (three dimensional spaces) foliated like pages in a book within spacetime.
Dark Matter: Still Dark. Julianne 2008
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