unfold

Meanings

Verb

• To undo a folding.
• To turn out; to happen; to develop.
• To reveal.
• To open (anything covered or closed); to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development.
• To release from a fold or pen.

Noun

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

Related

Opposite words

• fold

Origin

• From Middle English unfolden, from Old English unfealdan, equivalent to un- + fold.