Dictionary Entry
foliation
foliation is a 9-letter English word with 11 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
- 2noun
The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud.
- 3noun
The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
- 4noun
The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
- 5noun
The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
the work of coating glass with metal foil
- 8noun
the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves
- 9noun
(architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament
Synonyms
- 10noun
(geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock
- 11noun
(botany) the process of forming leaves
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