Definition of fold

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Fold (v.) Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four..

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Triplicity :: Triplicity (a.) The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness..
Thousandfold :: Thousandfold (a.) Multiplied by a thousand.
Complicate :: Complicate (a.) Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise..
Fold :: Fold (v. t.) To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
Scaffoldage :: Scaffoldage (n.) A scaffold.
Standard :: Standard (n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing..
Book :: Book (n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing..
Duplication :: Duplication (n.) The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold..
Frondesce :: Frondesce (v. i.) To unfold leaves, as plants..
Unwrap :: Unwrap (v. t.) To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded..
Scaffold :: Scaffold (n.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace..
Pocketknife :: Pocketknife (n.) A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket..
Sextodecimo :: Sextodecimo (a.) Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume..
Apron :: Apron (n.) The infolded abdomen of a crab.
Explain :: Explain (a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible..
Hypopharynx :: Hypopharynx (n.) An appendage or fold on the lower side of the pharynx, in certain insects..
Manifold :: Manifold (n.) The third stomach of a ruminant animal.
Septuple :: Septuple (a.) Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.
Coleoptera :: Coleoptera (n. pl.) An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillae) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils..
Sevenfold :: Sevenfold (a.) Repeated seven times; having seven thicknesses; increased to seven times the size or amount.
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