Folding
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Fold or folding may refer to:
- Paper folding, 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
Other uses in science and mathematics
- 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
- Fold (geology), one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces that are bent or curved as a result of plastic deformation
- Polygon folding, or polyhedron folding
Other uses
- Book folding, in book production
- 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
- Amicus Therapeutics, NASDAQ stock trading symbol FOLD
- The fold in newspapers, used to demarcate content above the fold
- Sheep fold, a sheep pen in British English
- Folding bicycle, a bicycle designed to fold into a compact form
See also
- All pages beginning with Folding
- All pages with a title containing Folding
- Folder (disambiguation)
- Bend (disambiguation)
- Crease (disambiguation)
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