Meaning of FOLIATED
| Pronunciation: | | 'fowlee`eytid
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- [adj] (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
- [adj] (architecture) ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a foliated capital"
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| | Synonyms: | | bedded, foliate, foliate, stratified |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fo"li*a`ted\, a.
1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated
shell.
2. (Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a
foliated arch.
3. (Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates
or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
4. (Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of
laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica
schist, etc.; schistose.
5. Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
{Foliated telluium}. (Min.) See {Nagyagite}.
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| | Related Terms: | | bowery, branched, branching, branchy, filmy, foliaceous, foliaged, foliate, foliose, in layers, lamellar, lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminated, laminous, leaflike, leafy, leaved, leavy, membranous, ramate, ramified, ramose, ramous, scummy, spathic, spathose, stratified, stratiform, three-ply, twiggy, two-ply |
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