Found 2 items, similar to Foliated.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: foliated foliated adj 1: ornamented with foliage or foils; “foliate tracery”; “a foliated capital” [syn: foliate] 2: (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata [syn: foliate, foliaceous]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Foliated Foliate \Fo"li*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Foliating.] 1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass. [1913 Webster] Foliated \Fo"li*a`ted\, a. 1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell. [1913 Webster] 2. (Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch. [1913 Webster] 3. (Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure. [1913 Webster] 4. (Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose. [1913 Webster] 5. Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver. [1913 Webster] Foliated telluium. (Min.) See Nagyagite. [1913 Webster]