Folding
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Fold or folding may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Fold (album), the debut release by Australian rock band Epicure
- Fold (poker), in the game of poker, to discard one's hand and forfeit interest in the current pot
- Above the fold, content published in the top half of a newspage, thereby considered important
- Below the fold, content published in the bottom half of a newspage, thereby considered less important
- Below the Fold: The Pulitzer That Defined Latino Journalism, a 2007 documentary film
- Paper folding, or origami, the art of folding paper
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology
- Protein folding, the physical process by which a polypeptide folds into its characteristic and functional three-dimensional structure
- Folding@home, a powerful distributed-computing project for simulating protein folding
- Fold coverage, quality of a DNA sequence
- Skin fold, an area of skin that folds
Computing
- Fold (higher-order function), a type of programming operation on data structures
- fold (Unix), a computer program used to wrap lines to fit in a specified width
- Folding (signal processing), an aspect of aliasing
- Folding editor, a text editor that supports text folding or code folding, allowing the user to hide and reveal blocks of text
- case folding is the conversion of letter case in a string
- Constant folding, a compiler optimization technique
- Folding@home, a powerful distributed-computing project for simulating protein folding
Other uses in science and mathematics
- Fold (geology), one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces that are bent or curved as a result of plastic deformation
- Fold (higher-order function), in functional programming, fold refers to a family of higher-order functions that analyze a recursive data structure and through use of a given combining opera
- Folding (chemistry), the process by which a molecule assumes its shape or conformation
- Folding (Dynkin diagram), in Lie theory, a way of obtaining one Dynkin diagram from another
- e-folding, exponential growth or decay
- Polygon folding, or polyhedron folding
Other uses
- Amicus Therapeutics, NASDAQ stock trading symbol FOLD
- Book folding, in book production
- Folding bicycle, a bicycle designed to fold into a compact form
- Folding clothes, allows apparel to be stored compactly, prevents unwanted creasing, preserves wanted creases, and presents them in a pleasing manner, for instance when displayed on sale in stores
- Pen (enclosure), or sheep fold, a sheep pen in British English
- Samsung Galaxy Fold, a smartphone
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See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Folding
- All pages with titles containing Folding
- Bend (disambiguation)
- Crease (disambiguation)
- Folder (disambiguation)
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