Folding
Appearance
Fold, folding or foldable may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- 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 and below the fold, the positioning of news items on a newspaper's front page according to perceived importance
- Paper folding, or origami, the art of folding paper
Science, technology, and mathematics
[edit]Biology
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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 (DSP implementation), a transformation technique using in DSP architecture implementation
- 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
Electronics
[edit]Other uses in science and mathematics
[edit]- 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
- Folding (Dynkin diagram), in Lie theory, a way of obtaining one Dynkin diagram from another
- Fold change, a measure of the difference between two quantities
- e-folding, exponential growth or decay
- Polygon folding, or polyhedron folding
Other uses
[edit]- Amicus Therapeutics, NASDAQ stock trading symbol FOLD
- Book folding, in book production
- Foldable smartphone, a smartphone with a folding form factor
- Folding bicycle, a bicycle designed to fold into a compact form
- Folding bridge, a bridge that can be folded, mainly to open for higher boats
- 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
- -fold, a feature in British toponymy
- Samsung Galaxy Fold, a smartphone
- Scottish Fold, a cat breed