About The Word Foliated
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Foliated
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What's The Definition Of Foliated?
[adj] (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
[adj] (architecture) ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a foliated capital" Synonyms | Synonyms for Foliated: bedded | foliate | foliate | stratified Related Terms | Find terms related to Foliated: 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 See Also | Foliated In Webster's Dictionary \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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