folding

UK /ˈfəʊldɪŋ/ US /ˈfoʊldɪŋ/
noun 5adj 1

Definitions

adj

1

Designed to fold

a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair

noun

1

The action of folding; a fold.

I have ſeen abundance of antique figures in Sculpture and Painting, with juſt the ſame turn in the lower foldings of the Veſt, when the perſon that wears it is in a poſture of tripping forward.

Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.

2

The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.

3

Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.

4

the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.

5

Paper money, as opposed to coins.

He has written twelve of these fat sex and sword-play historical novels and every damn one of them has been on the best-seller lists. He must have made plenty of the folding.

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