Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or process of folding.
  • noun The state of being folded.
  • noun A fold.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or process of folding, or the state of being put in folds; a folding or putting in folds, as duplication or triplication. Also plicature.
  • noun That which is plicated; a plica or fold. Also plicature.
  • noun In geology, a bending of the strata; a fold or folding.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A folding or fold; a plait.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an angular or rounded shape made by folding
  • noun the act of folding in parallel folds

Etymologies

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From Middle French plicacion, and its source, Latin plicatio.

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Examples

  • Of course she derived from alien stock, and could assume any living form she chose, with sufficient ap - plication and practice, so could be just as pretty as she was able to imagine.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • In the latter approach, by contrast, the moment of “matters of concern” or com-plication is the appearance of a new actor such as massive cultivation of bovine livestock that require the clearing of rain forests and that significantly increase contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • In the latter approach, by contrast, the moment of “matters of concern” or com-plication is the appearance of a new actor such as massive cultivation of bovine livestock that require the clearing of rain forests and that significantly increase contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.

    Ontology as self-realization Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Stanbic's lawyers said Wednesday that the new Competition Act sets out the broad competition principles that are of general ap - plication to the economy as a whole.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Of course she derived from alien stock, and could assume any living form she chose, with sufficient ap - plication and practice, so could be just as pretty as she was able to imagine.

    Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989

  • The reason for this difference is as follows: in von Mises 'theory the law of large numbers follows from Poisson's law plus randomness, and in the classical theory it follows from Laplace's definition plus the multi plication law.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968

  • “Habilitationsschrift” (1868); and as an immediate ap - plication of it he outlined the so-called Riemannian

    SPACE SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • The idea of respectability was more superficial and more widely applied than the idea of the gentleman, It included the suggestion of bodily cleanliness and neatness, particularly in its ap - plication to the lower classes.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. MADDEN 1968

  • Some directions of ap - plication are becoming clear, however.

    GAME THEORY OSKAR MORGENSTERN 1968

  • In characterizing the Soviet Union and its policy of peaceful coexistence as modern revisionism, as an ap - plication in the international sphere of Bernstein's policies of societal integration, the Chinese have linked the present to the past with more than usual attention to the details of historical analogy.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas J. P. NETTL 1968

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