folding

adjective

1. 1

   Designed to fold

   a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair

noun

1. 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. 2

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

3. 3

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

4. 4

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

5. 5

   slangPaper 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.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of foldpresent participle and gerund of fold

Forms

plural

foldings