noun pl. folios
- Bookkeeping a page of a ledger, or facing pages with the same number
- 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 document
- Printing
- a large sheet of paper folded once, so that it forms two leaves, or four pages, of a book, manuscript, etc.
- a large size of book, about 12 by 15 inches, made of sheets folded in this way
- a leaf of a manuscript, book, etc. numbered on only one side
- the number of a page in a book, etc.
Origin:
ME < L (in) folio, (in) a sheet, abl. of folium, a leaf (in LL, leaf of paper): see foliate
adjective
having sheets folded once; of the size of a folio
transitive verb folioed, folioing
to number the pages of (a book, etc.) consecutively; page