- Look up
foil in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Foil may
refer to:
Foil (metal), a
quite thin
sheet of metal,
usually manufactured with a
rolling mill...
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Aluminium foil (or
aluminum foil in
American English;
occasionally called tin
foil) is
aluminium prepared in thin
metal leaves. The
foil is
pliable and...
- A tin
foil hat is a hat made from one or more
sheets of tin
foil or
aluminium foil, or a
piece of
conventional headgear lined with
foil,
often worn in...
- Tin
foil, also
spelled tinfoil, is a thin
foil made of tin. Tin
foil was su****ded
after World War II by
cheaper and more
durable aluminium foil, which...
- In any narrative, a
foil is a
character who
contrasts with
another character, typically, a
character who
contrasts with the protagonist, in
order to better...
- A
foil is a very thin
sheet of metal,
typically made by
hammering or rolling.
Foils are most
easily made with
malleable metal, such as aluminium, copper...
- A
foil bearing, also
known as a
foil-air bearing, is a type of air bearing. A
shaft is
supported by a compliant, spring-loaded
foil journal lining. Once...
- A
foil is one of the
three weapons used in the
sport of fencing. It is a
flexible sword of
total length 110 cm (43 in) or under,
rectangular in
cross section...
- algebra,
FOIL is a
mnemonic for the
standard method of
multiplying two binomials—hence the
method may be
referred to as the
FOIL method. The word
FOIL is an...
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FOIL was the name for two
different programming languages. The
first FOIL was a CAI
language developed at the
University of
Michigan in 1967. The acronym...
