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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Foliate \Fo"li*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foliated}; p. pr & vb n. {Foliating}.] 1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. --Bacon. 2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as to foliate a looking-glass. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Foliated \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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: foliated adj 1: (architecture) ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a foliated capital" [syn: {foliate}] 2: (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata [syn: {foliate}]
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