fold
B2Frequent NGSL-3UK /fəʊld/US /fəʊld/
Meaning
noun
a part of something, especially cloth, that is folded or hangs as if it had been folded
“the folds of her dress”
verb
to bend something, especially paper or cloth, so that one part lies on top of another part
“fold something, First, fold the paper in half/in two.”
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“we routinely achieve 10, 100, sometimes 1,000-fold speedups,”
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“But people spent two years trying to figure out how to fold up this thing.”
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