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The folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface
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infolding
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface; "the invagination of the blastula" [syn: invagination , introversion , intussusception ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infold \In*fold"\ (?n-f?ld"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infolded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Infolding .] [Pref. in- in + fold.] [Written also enfold .] To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve. Gilded tombs do worms infold. --Shak. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of infold English)
Usage examples of infolding.
There’s still a hint of Zeus’s face in the coiled cloud at the top, but the wind and the cloud’s own infolding is breaking up that visage as well.
If any had been turned in their seats to talk with people in the rows behind them, they must not have glimpsed the infolding witchery, for no one stood to get a better look or called out in surprise.
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
How pretty did the fine, dark hairs which crossed it look against the whiteness of the skin, whose infoldings formed that deep enticing line.