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)