[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

foliation \fo"lia"tion\, n. cf. f. foliation.
   1. the process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
      1913 webster

   2. the manner in which the young leaves are dispo?ed within
      the bud.
      1913 webster

            the . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem.
                                                  --de quincey.
      1913 webster

   3. the act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil,
      or lamina.
      1913 webster

   4. the act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and
      quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
      1913 webster

   5. arch. the enrichment of an opening by means of foils,
      arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the
      ornaments. see tracery.
      1913 webster

   6. geol. the property, possessed by some crystalline rocks,
      of dividing into plates or slabs, which is 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.
      1913 webster
see also:
tracery 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

foliation
     n 1: botany the process of forming leaves syn: leafing
     2: geology the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock
     3: architecture leaf-like architectural ornament syn: foliage
     4: the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin
        leaves
     5: the work of coating glass with metal foil
see also:
leafing foliage 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

28 moby thesaurus words for "foliation":
   accounting, census, counting, dactylonomy, delamination,
   desquamation, enumeration, exfoliation, flakiness, foliage,
   frondage, furfuration, inventorying, lamellation, lamination,
   leafage, leafiness, measurement, numbering, numeration, pagination,
   quantification, quantization, scaliness, stratification, tallying,
   telling, umbrage

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Foliation, definition of term: Foliation
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Foliation groupoids and their cyclic homology, by Marius Crainic and Ieke...
...We also show that the holonomy and the monodromy groupoids are extreme examples of.....The last theorem asserts that equivalent foliation groupoids have isomorphic Hochschild.....Foliation groupoids and their cyclic homology, by Marius Crainic and Ieke Moerdijk.. Our..
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/K-theory/0446/, score=100, date indexed=July 4, 2005, 10:44 am

Taut foliation
...In mathematics, a taut foliation is a co-dimension 1 foliation of a 3-manifold with the property that every leaf has a.....A Reebless foliation can fail to be taut but the only leaves of the foliation with no.....Equivalently, by a result of Dennis Sullivan, a co-dimension 1 foliation is taut if there..
http://www.omniknow.com/common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Taut_foliation, score=87, date indexed=May 3, 2005, 3:37 am

foliation (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)
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Foliation groupoids and their cyclic homology, by Marius Crainic and Ieke...
...We also show that the holonomy and the monodromy groupoids are extreme examples of.....The last theorem asserts that equivalent foliation groupoids have isomorphic Hochschild.....Foliation groupoids and their cyclic homology, by Marius Crainic and Ieke Moerdijk.. Our..
http://www.mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de/K-theory/0446/, score=72, date indexed=July 3, 2005, 12:23 am

Foliation
...Foliation.. This page requires Javascript. In mathematics a foliation structure on a.....There is a global foliation theory because ..constraints exist. For example in the surface.....Foliation, Injera, 479 B.C., Bashkir language, 722 B.C., Calcaerous sponges, Don Carlos..
http://www.freeglossary.com/Foliation, score=72, date indexed=July 29, 2005, 7:55 am

Results for '"Foliation'
...Integrated Interpretation of Geophysical and Hydraulic Logs Foliation and Fractures.....Foliation forms when pressure squeezes the flat or elongate minerals within a rock so they.....It shows a strong agreement between foliation strike and passage direction suggesting..
http://search.usgs.gov/query.html?qm=1&charset=iso-8859-1&col=top2000+usgs&qt=%22Foliation, score=68, date indexed=July 8, 2005, 2:31 am

http://pulse.tcs.tulane.edu/~sanelson/eens212/metatexture.htm
...Most foliation is caused by the preferred orientation of phylosilicates, like clay.....to the maximum compressional stress direction, slatey cleavage or foliation should also.....minerals that form this foliation grow, they begin to break up the original beds into..
http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/eens212/metatexture.pdf, score=68, date indexed=September 19, 2004, 6:13 pm

...The S1 foliation can be correlated to the main NE trending foliation of the Transition.....In areas not disturbed by later deformation, this foliation strikes N30E to N60E and dips.....The S1 foliation is gently folded both in the southwestern and northern parts of the range..
http://reynolds.asu.edu/white_tank/protstuct.htm, score=68, date indexed=July 9, 2005, 8:33 pm

Results for '"Foliation'
...Integrated Interpretation of Geophysical and Hydraulic Logs Foliation and Fractures.....Foliation forms when pressure squeezes the flat or elongate minerals within a rock so they.....It shows a strong agreement between foliation strike and passage direction suggesting..
http://search.usgs.gov/query.html?col=usgs&col=top2000&ht=0&qp=&qt=%22Foliation, score=66, date indexed=July 2, 2005, 1:20 pm

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