| 释义 |
foliation|fəʊlɪˈeɪʃən|
Also 7 -acion.
[f. foliate a.: see -ation and cf. Fr. foliation.]
1. The leafing (of a plant); the process of bursting into leaf; the state of being in leaf.
1623Cockeram, Foliacion, budding of the leaues. 1779Mason Eng. Gard. iii. 221 Plants..rul'd by Foliation's different law. 1795Gentl. Mag. 540/1 Between total denudation and perfect foliation the rind..of various trees exhibits various tints. 1864in Webster.
b. concr. † (a) Something resembling a leaf; (b) a leaf-like process.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 48 Thus are also disposed the triangular foliations, in the conicall fruit of the firre tree. 1875Blake Zool. 55 Variously shaped and grotesque membranous foliations.
2. Bot.
†a. The assemblage of leaves or petals forming the corolla of a flower. Obs.
1671[see attire n. 8]. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 116 Thou wilt not find a rival in the feathers of a peacock, or the foliation of a tulip.
b. The formation or arrangement of leaves in the bud; = vernation.
1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxxi. 485 The foliation, or different folding of the leaves, before they are expanded. 1835in Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 176. 1845 ― Sch. Bot. iv. (1858) 25 Flowers regular, with.. gyrate foliation.
3. The action or process of beating (metal) into foil.
1755Johnson, Foliation, the act of beating into thin leaves. 1828in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.
4. Geol. The process and the property of splitting up into leaf-like layers; also the laminæ or plates into which crystalline rocks are divided.
1851–9Darwin in Man. Sci. Enq. 283 The foliation of the metamorphic schists..is intimately connected with the cleavage of homogeneous slaty rocks. 1876Page Advd. Text-Bk. Geol. viii. 159 Contortions and foliations among the gneiss and mica-schists.
5. Arch. Ornamentation with foils; tracery consisting chiefly of small arcs or foils.
1816[see feathering vbl. n. 2 b]. 1849Freeman Archit. 280 Foliations hanging free like lace-work. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. II. vi, Foliation..is..the easiest method of decoration which Gothic architecture possesses.
b. An arrangement of foliage.
1875J. H. Pollen Anc. & Mod. Furn. 85 Figured sculpture..in the form of..acanthus foliations.
6. The consecutive numbering of the folios (or leaves) of a book or MS.
1846–7W. Maskell Mon. Rit. II. p. xxiii, These..beginning with fresh signatures, and foliation, may be mistaken for perfect books. 1885C. Plummer Introd. to Fortescue's Abs. & Lim. Mon. 88 Monarchia occupies ff. 172–194 according to the old foliation.
7. The action or process of applying foil to glass.
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