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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of infold.

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Examples

  • So a zero vector system of nonzero vector components represents internal or "infolded" constantly-working forces (internal to the medium) where the system does not cause translation of the point or region of application, whereas a nonzero vector and a nonzero vector system represent external forces which cause at least some translation of the point or region of application, unless this translation is nullified by other forces (40).

    Chapter 4 1990

  • We have in our hands also, newly lit, newly trimmed, lustrous with the genius of our own time, that very lamp with which we are instructed to make this inquiry, that very light which we are told we must bring to bear upon the obscurities of these documents, that very light in which we are told, we must unroll them; for they come to us, as the interpreter takes pains to tell us, with an 'infolded' science in them.

    The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

  • An origami chair constructed from complex folds of recycled cardboard stood firm like a mathematician's dream, while a gorgeous sensual fabric had embedded within it a snake-like ribbon of self-infolded textile.

    Combining Craft with Digital Emma Crichton-Miller 2010

  • It was the object wedged behind an infolded flap of cardboard rimming the inside of the box.

    Spider Bones Kathy Reichs 2010

  • He was something to look at, despite an ordinary face with infolded lips, a scrawny neck.

    'Fine Just the Way It Is' 2008

  • And, again, apparently what infolded was that this person, a male known to the Secret Service apparently who had done this sort of thing before, had thrown some item over the fence and on to the White House grounds.

    CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2006 2006

  • The highest degree whereof is to write omnia per omnia; which is undoubtedly possible, with a proportion quintuple at most of the writing infolding to the writing infolded, and no other restraint whatsoever.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • And just below the path, where the pack-horses go climbing to the remote, infolded villages, in the cold gloom of the pass hangs the large, pale Christ.

    Twilight in Italy 2003

  • Another was a lurching ogre with massive, infolded features, deep, malevolent eyes, and arms as huge as other men's legs.

    Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

  • One sees that, if we would capture gravitation in a vector mathematics theory of EM, we must again restore the scalar term and convert the vector to a quaternion, so that one captures the quaternionically infolded stresses.

    Chapter 4 1990

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