A fabric describes the spatial and geometric relationships that make up a rock at the microscopic to centimeter scale. It includes planar structures like bedding and cleavage, as well as the preferred orientation of minerals. Fabrics can be primary, forming during rock formation processes, or secondary and resulting from deformation. Foliation refers specifically to planar fabric and can develop through processes like cleavage, schistosity, and mylonitic foliation under increasing metamorphic conditions and deformation. Lineations describe linear fabric elements oriented in rocks, such as intersection lineations between planar features or mineral lineations showing preferred mineral alignments. Together, foliations and lineations define the tectonite class of a rock.