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Recumbent Fold: An overturned fold that has two limbs which are nearly horizontal.

Recumbent: Descriptive of a cycle position; the rider is sitting with legs extended in front. Recumbent cycling works all the muscles of the thighs and buttocks. It is an excellent exercise for people . . . View Full Definition

Overturned Fold: A fold that has both limbs dipping in the same direction, resulting from one of those limbs being rotated through an angle of at least 90 degrees. Overturned folds are found in areas of inte . . . View Full Definition

Manifold: A branched collection of pipes for inlet or exhaust gases.

Recumbent Bike: A type of stationary bike with a bucket seat that provides back support so that you pedal straight out in front of you.

Limb (Fold): The relatively planar part of a fold or of two adjacent folds (for example, the steeply dipping part of a stratum between an anticline and syncline).

Spread Leg Forward Fold (Upavista Konasana): A seated pose. Sitting, spread the legs as wide as possible. Lower your upper body down until it touches the floor between legs. Arms should be kept straight, close to your ears.

Scaffold: In genomic mapping, a series of contigs that are in the right order but not necessarily connected in one continuous stretch of sequence.

Threefold Death: According to Dan Wiley's entry in Duffy's Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia, threefold death is a motif of the early Irish aideda in which a victim is killed by three different means in rapi . . . View Full Definition

Fourfold Meaning: Another term for fourfold interpretation, this word refers to the medieval idea that every passage in the Bible can be interpreted according to at least one of four possible levels of meanin . . . View Full Definition