- folio
- folio [fō′lē ō΄; ] also [ fōl′yō΄]n.pl. folios [ME < L ( in) folio, (in) a sheet, abl. of folium, a leaf (in LL, leaf of paper): see FOLIATE]1. Bookkeeping a page of a ledger, or facing pages with the same number2. Law a set number of words (100 in the U.S., 72 or 90 in England) considered as a unit of measuring the length of a legal or official document3. Printinga) a large sheet of paper folded once, so that it forms two leaves, or four pages, of a book, manuscript, etc.b) a large size of book, about 12 by 15 inches, made of sheets folded in this wayc) a leaf of a manuscript, book, etc. numbered on only one sided) the number of a page in a book, etc.adj.having sheets folded once; of the size of a foliovt.folioed, folioingto number the pages of (a book, etc.) consecutively; page——————in folioin the form or size of a folio
English World dictionary. V. Neufeldt. 2014.