foliation

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The general direction of foliation is a few degrees south of east, subject, of course, to many local changes.

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  1. noun The state of being in leaf.
  2. noun Decoration with sculpted or painted foliage.
  3. noun Architecture Decoration of an opening with cusps and foils, as in Gothic tracery.

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  • As an example, we give some computations for spheres. borthwickuribe chern-simons complex_geometry determinant determinant_bundle equivariant_cohomology eta foliation geometric_quantization higher_torsion index k-theory non-commutative_geometry orbifolds psido qft refined_torsion sepctrum symplectic torsion transversally_elliptic turaev_torsion vanishing wodzicki_residue CiteULike organises scholarly —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We have tried to keep as elementary as possible. borthwickuribe chern-simons complex_geometry determinant determinant_bundle equivariant_cohomology eta foliation geometric_quantization higher_torsion index k-theory non-commutative_geometry orbifolds psido qft refined_torsion sepctrum symplectic torsion transversally_elliptic turaev_torsion vanishing wodzicki_residue CiteULike organises scholarly —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It was a folio of 76 leaves, without title-page, foliation, catchwords or signatures, in this respect being identical with the books printed in conjunction with Mansion. —  A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898
  • It had made a trip to France--and was resting there in the fifteenth century, as is proved by the French note of that period on fol. 51r. We may say “the book” and not merely “the present six leaves,” for the fragment begins with fol. 48, and the foliation is of the fifteenth century. —  A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York
  • Its chief difference from Polygaleae, is habit, foliation, and the perigynous insertion of corolla and stamina, and consequent union of the sepals. —  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
 

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  1. = French feuillaison = Spanish foliacion = Portuguese foleação, from Middle Latin as if *foliatio(n-), from foliare, put forth leaves: see foliate, v.
 

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/foʊlɪˈeɪʃən/
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