FOLIATED

a.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.

2.
a.

Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.

3.
a.

Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.

4.
a.

Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.

5.
a.

Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver. Foliated telluium. (Min.) See Nagyagite.


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