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FOIL

proper nounverbattested in dialogue

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An acronym for the algorithm for multiplying two binomials.

proper noun

  1. 1

    An acronym for the algorithm for multiplying two binomials.

Etymology

Acronym of first outer inner last or similar.

verb

  1. 1

    To apply the FOIL algorithm to.

Forms

past tense
FOILed
past participle
FOILed
present participle
FOILing
third person singular
FOILs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).