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Foil
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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