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- noun Plural form of
foliation .
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Examples
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In particular, descriptions of the state of systems in different foliations of spacetime into parallel spacelike hyperplanes, which correspond to different inertial reference frames, are to be related to each other by the Lorentz transformations.
Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics Berkovitz, Joseph 2007
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They supported with their sooty heads and arms a lovely wrought-iron balcony and although there were occasional gaps in their plaster foliations they were still in pretty good trim.
Killer Dolphin Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1966
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The side windows are each of two lights, the principal arch-head being solid, but pierced with a single aperture divided into six foliations.
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They used foliations, not on account of their subjective significance, as the Greek artists did, but on account of their objective and material applicability to the decoration of their architecture.
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The windows, which are of three lights, contain portions of ornamental borders with quarry glazing, and some medallions, stars in the foliations, and borders of crowns.
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They belted them with bands of ornament, cut at first in imitation of tiles, and afterwards beautifully panelled with foliations.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various
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The two windows under the canopy were reopened and filled with stained glass, and on the tomb was placed a stone slab, "engraved according to the style of the thirteenth century," with an ornamented cross having foliations on each side.
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Mediaeval Art is contained in that remarkable and very characteristic system of foliations and cuspidations in tracery, which were suggested by the leaf-forms in Nature.
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Few contrivances more umbrageous than the combination of its long, feathery foliations into its perfection of a parasol.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various
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-- Two arches, with foliations, over effigies between them, a door leading, down to a crypt.
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