Folding
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Fold or folding may refer to:
- Paper folding, the art of folding paper
- Book folding, in book production
- Skin fold, an area of skin that folds
- Fold (poker), in the game of poker, to discard one's hand and forfeit interest in the current pot
- Fold (album), the debut release by Australian rock band Epicure
- FOLD, the NASDAQ stock trading symbol for Amicus Therapeutics
- The fold in newspapers, used to demarcate content above the fold
- Sheep fold, a sheep pen in British English
- Folding bicycle, bicycle designed to fold into a compact form
Science
- Fold (geology), one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces that are bent or curved as a result of plastic deformation
- Folding (chemistry), the process by which a molecule assumes its shape or conformation
- 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
- Folding (signal processing), an aspect of aliasing
- Folding (Dynkin diagram), a way of obtaining one Dynkin diagram from another
- Fold coverage, quality of a DNA sequence
- Polygon folding, or polyhedron folding
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 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
See also
- All pages beginning with "Folding"
- All pages with titles containing Folding
- Folder (disambiguation)
- Bend (disambiguation)
- Crease (disambiguation)
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