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mobile | foliation |

As nouns the difference between mobile and foliation

is that mobile is a sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other () while foliation is (lb) the process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

As an adjective mobile

is capable of being moved.

mobile

English

(wikipedia mobile)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being moved.
  • By agency of mobile phones.
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  • Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
    • Mercury is a mobile liquid.
  • Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
    • (Testament of Love)
  • * Hawthorne
    • the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
  • Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
    • mobile features
  • (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

    • Antonyms

    * fixed * immobile * sessile

    Derived terms

    * MASH * mobile library * mobile phone * mobile station

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().
  • A mobile phone ().
  • Something that can move.

    • Related terms

    * mobility * mobilize * mobilization * move

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    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.
  • *
  • *: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

    Related terms

    * exfoliate * exfoliation * foliate * folium

    See also

    * cleavage (geology) * lineation (geology)