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foliation

/foh-lee-ey-shuhn/US // ˌfoʊ liˈeɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌfəʊlɪˈeɪʃən) //

叶脉,叶脉图,叶脉学,对折线

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or process of putting forth leaves.
    • : the state of being in leaf.
    • : Botany. the arrangement of leaves within a bud.the arrangement of leaves on a plant.
    • : leaves or foliage.
    • : Printing. the consecutive numbering of the folios or leaves, as distinguished from pages, of a manuscript or book.
    • : the total number of such leaves.
    • : Petrology. a form of lamination produced in rocks by metamorphism.
    • : ornamentation with foliage, or an arrangement of foliage.
    • : Architecture. ornamentation with foils.ornamentation with representations of foliage.
    • : formation into thin sheets.
    • : the application of foil to glass to make a mirror.

Examples

  • The recesses on the sides of the other cusps indicate their single or double lines of foliation.

  • Between the asterisk in my text (supra) and the one following ford before the foliation mark f. 364, the ai.

  • On the oak-beamed ceiling, across the ivory rosettes, a single bar of red sunlight lay, broken by rafter and plaster foliation.

  • The design of the slab on the south, formerly the back, is also rude foliation.

  • Simple Gothic foliation is merely the triple, quadruple, or variously multiple repetition of such intersection.