Pronunciation Adjective
folding
- Designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.
- French: pliant, repliable, rabattable
- German: Klapp-
- Russian: складно́й
- Spanish: plegable
folding (plural foldings)
- The action of folding; a fold.
- 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey
- Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.
- 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey
- The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
- (computing, programming) Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
- (geology) the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
- (slang) Paper money, as opposed to coins.
- 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 123:
- 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.
- 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 123:
- French: pliage, plissement
- German: Falten, Klappen
- Russian: скла́дывание
- present participle of fold#English|fold
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