foliation

n. செடிகள் இலை விடுதல், உலோகத்தை மென் தகடாக அடித்தல், கண்ணாடியின் பின்புறம் மெல்லிய தகட்டினை வைத்து முகப்பார்க்கும் கண்ணாடியாக்குதல், புத்தகத்தின் தாள்களின் எண்குறித்தல்.

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Fo"li*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. foliation.] 1. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. 2. The manner in which the young leaves are dispo The . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem. De Quincey. 3. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina. 4. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses. 5. (Arch.) Defn: The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery. 6. (Geol.) Defn: 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.

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