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foliation  

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  • In topology, a foliation is a decoration of a manifold in which the manifold is partitioned into sheets of some lower dimension, and the sheets are locally parallel. More technically, the foliated manifold is locally homeomorphic to a vector space decorated by co-sets of a subspace. (Encyclopedia of Science, by David Darling, https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/F/foliation.html)

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