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foldings

foldings is the plural of folding.

Meaning of folding

Noun

folding (countable and uncountable, plural foldings)

  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.a. 1719, Joseph Addison, Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals, pages 63–64
  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. (slang) 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.1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 123

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Questions about foldings

What is foldings the plural of?
Foldings is the plural of folding.

Words near foldings in the dictionary

  1. folding-bones
  2. folding-stick
  3. folding-sticks
  4. folding-table
  5. folding-tables
  6. foldings
  7. foldingstick
  8. foldingsticks
  9. foldless
  10. FOLDOC
  11. foldome

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