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As a noun foliation

is (lb) the process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

As an adjective false is

(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

foliation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
  • (lb) The process of forming into pages; pagination.
  • (lb) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
  • The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
  • The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
  • The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.
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  • *:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
  • (lb) 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.
  • *1993 , Charles A. Baskerville, Fitzhugh T. Lee, Charles A. Ratté, Landslide Hazards in Vermont , U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2043, p.18:
  • *:The dominant strike orientation of both bedding and foliation of Vermont bedrock is north or northeasterly.
  • *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.
  • *2004 , F. Martín-Hernández, C. M. Lüneburg, C. Aubourg, M. Jackson, Magnetic fabric: methods and applications - an introduction'', Geological Society of London, ''Magnetic Fabric: Methods and Applications , p.3:
  • *:In sedimentary rocks, the magnetic foliation results from a combination of depositional processes and diagenetic compaction.
  • (lb) 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.
  • *1992 , R. C. Penner, Combinatorics of Train Tracks , p.204:
  • *:Historically, the formalism which first arose for the material we discuss is that of measured foliations in surfaces.
  • *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', Pawe? 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

    See also

    * cleavage (geology) * lineation (geology)

    false

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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  • , title= A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society , section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
  • Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
  • Spurious, artificial.
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  • *
  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • (lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
  • Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
  • :
  • Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
  • Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
  • :
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:whose false foundation waves have swept away
  • Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
  • (lb) Out of tune.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of two options on a true-or-false test.
  • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Antonyms

    * (untrue) real, true

    Derived terms

    * false attack * false dawn * false friend * falsehood * falseness * falsify * falsity

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You play me false .

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