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Yes. The word foliation is a Scrabble US word. The word foliation is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word foliation is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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9-letter words (1 found)

FOLIATION,

7-letter words (2 found)

TAILFIN,TINFOIL,

6-letter words (7 found)

FINIAL,FINITO,FINLIT,FONTAL,LATINO,LOTION,TALION,

5-letter words (21 found)

AFOOT,AIOLI,ALOFT,ALOIN,ALOOF,FAINT,FINAL,FITNA,FLINT,FLOAT,FLOTA,FOLIA,FOLIO,INTIL,LITAI,LOOFA,NOOIT,NOTAL,TALON,TOLAN,TONAL,

4-letter words (66 found)

ALIF,ALIT,ALOO,ALTO,ANIL,ANTI,FAIL,FAIN,FANO,FIAT,FILA,FILO,FINI,FINO,FLAN,FLAT,FLIT,FOAL,FOIL,FOIN,FONT,FOOL,FOOT,ILIA,INFO,INIA,INTI,INTO,IOTA,LAIN,LANT,LATI,LIFT,LINO,LINT,LION,LOAF,LOAN,LOFT,LOIN,LOOF,LOON,LOOT,LOTA,LOTI,LOTO,NAIF,NAIL,NAOI,NOIL,NOLO,NOTA,OINT,OLIO,ONTO,OONT,TAIL,TAIN,TALI,TIAN,TIFO,TINA,TOIL,TOLA,TOOL,TOON,

3-letter words (42 found)

AFT,AIL,AIN,AIT,ALF,ALT,ANI,ANT,FAN,FAT,FIL,FIN,FIT,FON,FOO,ION,ITA,LAT,LIN,LIT,LOO,LOT,NAT,NIL,NIT,NOO,NOT,OAF,OAT,OFT,OIL,ONO,OOF,OON,OOT,TAI,TAN,TAO,TIL,TIN,TON,TOO,

2-letter words (21 found)

AI,AL,AN,AT,FA,IF,IN,IO,IT,LA,LI,LO,NA,NO,OF,OI,ON,OO,TA,TI,TO,

You can make 160 words from foliation according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of foliation

foliation

Etymology

From French foliation, from Latin folium (“leaf”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation)
    • IPA(key): /fəʊlɪˈeɪʃn/
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

foliation (countable and uncountable, plural foliations)

  1. (botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
  2. (publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination.
  3. (codicology, publishing) The numbering of the folios of a manuscript or a book.
  4. (botany) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
  5. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
  6. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
  7. The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.
  8. (geology) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of being divided into plates or layers, due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.
    • 1996, Eric C. Beam, Modeling Growth and Rotation of Porphyroblasts and Inclusion Trails, D.G. De Paor, Structural Geology and Personal Computers, p.249:
      They show that curved inclusion trails may form even with no coupling, as the porphyroblast overgrows foliation that is deflected around it.
  9. (topology) A set of submanifolds of a given manifold, each of which is of lower dimension than it, but which, taken together, are coextensive with it.
    • 2003, Alberto Candel, Lawrence Conlon, Foliations, Vol.2, p.253:
      We will show that every closed 3-manifold has a foliation of codimension one. In 1952, G. Reeb published his construction of a foliation of the 3-sphere. About twelve years later, W. Lickorish [123] exhibited foliations of codimension one on every closed, orientable 3-manifold.
    • 2004, Paweł Grzegorz Walczak, Dynamics Of Foliations, Groups And Pseudogroups, Monografie Matematyczne: Vol.64, New Series, p.6:
      The simplest example of a foliation is provided by a single submersion F : M → N, M and N being manifolds.

Synonyms

  • (process of forming pages): pagination
  • (growth and arrangement of leaves): vernation

Derived terms

Related terms

  • defoliation
  • exfoliate
  • exfoliation
  • foliate
  • folio
  • folium
  • refoliation

Translations

See also

  • cleavage (geology)
  • lineation (geology)

French

Pronunciation

Noun

foliation f (plural foliations)

  1. (botany) foliation
  2. (geology) foliation

Further reading

  • “foliation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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