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Octofoil vs Multifoil - What's the difference?

octofoil | multifoil | see also |

Octofoil is a see also of multifoil.


As nouns the difference between octofoil and multifoil

is that octofoil is (heraldiccharge) a stylized flower or leaf with eight lobes; a double quatrefoil while multifoil is (architecture) a symmetrical shape which forms the overall outline of a set of partially-overlapping circles of the same diameter.

As an adjective octofoil

is having eight lobes or leaves.

octofoil

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having eight lobes or leaves.
  • *2001 , (Anthea Bell), translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz , Penguin 2011, p. 213:
  • *:Then there was the cool air as I entered the front hall of Number Twelve Šporkova, the metal box for the electrics built into the wall beside the entrance with its lightning symbol, the octofoil mosaic flower in shades of dove grey and snow white […].

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (heraldiccharge) A stylized flower or leaf with eight lobes; a double quatrefoil.

    • multifoil

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) A symmetrical shape which forms the overall outline of a set of partially-overlapping circles of the same diameter.

    • See also

    * trefoil * quatrefoil * cinquefoil * sexfoil * octofoil * polyfoil