Foil - Definition and Overview
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,
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,
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,
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,
Antipodes
,
Antithesis
,
Antonym
,
Background
,
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,
Barnstormer
,
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,
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,
Blast
,
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Challenge
,
Character
Foil
can mean:
In
chemistry
, a thin sheet of metal; see
foil (chemistry)
.
In
fencing
, a type of practice weapon; see
foil (sword)
.
In boating, a
hydrofoil
.
In
aeronautics
, an
airfoil
is a type of wing or blade.
Aluminium foil
, a type of wrapping for food.
In
literature
, a type of character; see
foil (literature)
.
In
computer science
,
FOIL
was the name of two old
programming languages
.
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disambiguation
page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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