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unfold

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈfoʊld/

The English word “unfold” has 7 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To undo a folding.
  2. To become unfolded.
  3. To turn out; to happen; to develop.
  4. To lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to reveal.
  5. To reassemble a line of text that was split across multiple lines.
  6. To release from a fold or pen.

noun

  1. In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.

Etymology

From Middle English unfolden, from Old English unfealdan (“to unfold”), equivalent to un- + fold.

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