Definitionen
1.NounThe process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
2.NounThe process of forming into pages; pagination.
3.NounThe numbering of the folios of a manuscript or a book.
4.NounThe manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
5.NounThe act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
6.NounThe act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
7.NounThe enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.
8.NounThe 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.
9.NounA set of submanifolds of a given manifold, each of which is of lower dimension than it, but which, taken together, are coextensive with it.