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Princeton's WordNet

  1. frustration, thwarting, foilingnoun

    an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts

Wikipedia

  1. foiling

    A sailing hydrofoil, hydrofoil sailboat, or hydrosail is a sailboat with wing-like foils mounted under the hull. As the craft increases its speed the hydrofoils lift the hull up and out of the water, greatly reducing wetted area, resulting in decreased drag and increased speed. A sailing hydrofoil can achieve speeds exceeding double and in some cases triple the wind speed. Both monohull and multihull sailboats can be retrofitted with hydrofoils, although greater stability can be achieved by using the wider planform of a catamaran or trimaran.

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  1. foiling

    Foiling is a mathematical acronym (First, Outer, Inner, Last) used to multiply two binomials. In algebra, it's a method for simplifying expressions. The process involves multiplying the first terms of both binomials, then the outside terms, then the inside terms, and finally the last terms. Finally, you combine the results to simplify the expression.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Foiling

    of Foil

  2. Foilingnoun

    a foil

  3. Foilingnoun

    the track of game (as deer) in the grass

  4. Etymology: [Cf. F. foules. See 1st Foil.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of foiling in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of foiling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of foiling in a Sentence

  1. Eric Monnin:

    For a long time, I've been watching the extraordinary performance of foiling sailing boats... but it is still an evolving area, and I've always found that there is something missing.

  2. Eitan Ben-David:

    These foreign fighters can certainly pose a grave danger internally, so the Shin Bet (security service) and all the state system is doing very good work in foiling this threat, which could be a kind of spreading cancer, to our satisfaction, the situation is reasonable. It is not like any European country, nor even America, or places like China or Russia which have had a great number of homegrown ISIS fighters.

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