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  • noun Plural form of folding.

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Examples

  • See if there's any new teams coming up after all the 'foldings' we had at the end of last year.

    PezCyclingNews.com 2010

  • See if there's any new teams coming up after all the 'foldings' we had at the end of last year.

    PezCyclingNews.com 2010

  • On every points the foldings of the threads gives hospitality to the dressing-room and the vip hall, in other points there are areas reserved to the staff, cash desk, or special product areas like Armani Dolci.

    Armani on 5th Avenue by Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas 2009

  • During one of their walks a poor cot in the foldings of a vale attracted their notice, as being singularly disconsolate, while the number of half-clothed children gathered about it, spoke of penury in its worst shape.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable.

    Tom Watson: George Bailey and the Darkness on the Edge of Town 2009

  • To act as enzymes, for example, proteins require specific amino acid sequences that result in specific foldings and conformational arrangements, the end product providing a "docking" site whose interaction with a transition state entity catalyzes a particular reaction.

    Dan Agin: Book Review: Giant Molecules: From Nylon to Nanotubes 2009

  • The magazines 'foldings in the late' 70s left her deeply depressed -- she had no hobbies; work plugged all holes -- and, worse, pensionless.

    Sheila Weller: Life-Lessons From My Mother, The National Enquirer Scoop Artist 2008

  • I do receive it, but forbear to unclose its foldings, greater pleasure first to enjoy

    Iphigenia in Tauris 2008

  • I do receive it, but forbear to unclose its foldings, greater pleasure first to enjoy

    Iphigenia in Tauris 2008

  • Yet it does suggest that lots of positive entropy in our local region of the universe is due to how EPR pairs become inaccessible across cosmological horizons, or e-foldings.

    The Black Hole War Sean 2008

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