Definitions for foliation

• Definition
• Anagrams (246)

foliation fo·li·a·tion

Spelling: [foh-lee-ey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌfoʊ liˈeɪ ʃən/

Foliation is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in foliation (afiilnoot).

Definitions for foliation

noun

1. the act or process of putting forth leaves.
2. the state of being in leaf.
3. Botany. the arrangement of leaves within a bud. the arrangement of leaves on a plant.
4. leaves or foliage.
5. Printing. the consecutive numbering of the folios or leaves, as distinguished from pages, of a manuscript or book.
6. the total number of such leaves.
7. Petrology. a form of lamination produced in rocks by metamorphism.
8. ornamentation with foliage, or an arrangement of foliage.
9. Architecture. ornamentation with foils. ornamentation with representations of foliage.
10. formation into thin sheets.
11. the application of foil to glass to make a mirror.

Origin of foliation

First recorded in 1615-25; foliate + -ion

Examples for foliation

Between the asterisk in my text (supra) and the one following ford before the foliation mark f. 364, the ai.

But the element of foliation must enter somewhere, or the style is imperfect.

If there be no foliation anywhere, the building is assuredly imperfect Gothic.

A great affinity exists in foliation between Terebinthace and Sapindaceæ.

The recesses on the sides of the other cusps indicate their single or double lines of foliation.

The upper windows, for instance, in the east end of Westminster Abbey are imperfect for want of foliation.

foliation is especially characteristic of Gothic architecture; some of the windows in Westminster Abbey are foliated.

After the Early English comes the Decorated period, in which the mouldings and foliation become fuller, broader, and more ornate.

Darwin also admitted that Scrope had to a great extent forestalled him in his theory of foliation.

In cases where the form is entirely artificial they may be distinguished by the sinuous character of the foliation.