Synonyms of the word

foliation

• n. (botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
• n. (publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination.
• n. (botany) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
• n. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
• n. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
• n. The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of…
• n. (geology) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of being divided into plates or layers, due…
• n. (topology) A set of submanifolds of a given manifold, each of which is of lower dimension than it, but…

application

• n. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense.
• n. The substance applied.
• n. The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
• n. The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement…
• n. (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as…
• n. A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
• n. (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request.

coating

• n. A thin outer layer.
• n. (archaic) Cloth for making coats.
• v. present participle of coat.

covering

• n. (countable) That which covers something.
• n. (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover.
• v. present participle of cover.

development

• n. (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
• n. (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is…
• n. (countable) Something which has developed.
• n. (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings, real…
• n. (real estate, uncountable) The building of a real estate development.
• n. (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
• n. (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
• n. (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form.

foliage

• n. The leaves of plants.
• n. (short for) Fall foliage.
• n. An architectural ornament representing foliage.

growing

• v. present participle of grow.
• n. growth; increase.
• n. (attributive) Connected with growing.
• adj. That grows.

growth

• n. An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
• n. (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
• n. (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
• n. (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

leafing

• v. present participle of leaf.
• n. The act of one who leafs through something.

maturation

• n. The process of becoming mature.
• n. (biology) The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism.

ontogenesis

• n. the arising or development of an individual organism.

ontogeny

• n. The development of an individual organism.

production

• n. The act of producing, making or creating something.
• n. The act of bringing something forward, out etc. for use or consideration.
• n. The act of being produced.
• n. The total amount produced.
• n. The presentation of a theatrical work.
• n. An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
• n. That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual…
• n. The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
• n. (computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate…

stratification

• n. the process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.
• n. (music) a layering of musical texture.
• n. (ecology) the vertical layering of vegetation in a forest.
• n. (sociology) society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata.