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

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Folding
• All pages with titles containing Folding
• Bend (disambiguation)
• Crease (disambiguation)
• Folder (disambiguation)