Folding

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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