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.
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2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver;
as, to foliate a looking-glass.
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Foliated
\Fo"li*a`ted\, a.
1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated
shell.
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2. (Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a
foliated arch.
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3. (Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates
or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
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4. (Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of
laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica
schist, etc.; schistose.
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5. Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
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Foliated telluium. (Min.) See
Nagyagite.
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