Folding

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Fold may refer to:

• Above the fold, a graphic design concept originating in newspapers
• Fold (from the Saxon "falod") meaning a staked-off pasture area (e.g. Sheepfold, an enclosure for sheep) and used in place names such as the Fold Villages.
• Catastrophe theory#Fold catastrophe, one of the most basic objects in singularity theory.
• -fold, a suffix added to a cardinal number signifying "multiplied by"
• skin fold
• In computing:
  • Fold (higher-order function), a family of higher-order functions in functional computer programming
  • Fold (Unix), a program in the GNU Core Utilities

Fold or folding may refer to:

• folding, in poker, the act of withdrawing from a hand rather than meeting the bet
• Paper folding (see also below under Mathematics)
  • origami, the art of paper folding
• pattern welding, the folding of metal
• bankruptcy
• Folding in cooking refers to a gentle mixing technique, somewhere between a cutting motion and a stirring motion, used to incorporate ingredients into a batter or other mixture, such as for a cake.
• Folding (Book folding) in the publishing process refers to the folding of the pages of the book, after printing and before binding
• In science:
• fold (geology)
• in computer programming:
  • case folding is a term denoting the conversion of all characters in a string to lower- or upper-case
  • code or text folding (as in a folding editor for folding code or text)
  • In functional languages folding refers to processing some data structure and accumulating a result.
  • Mathematics of paper folding
• folding (chemistry) or intramolecular self-assembly of molecules to assume a specific shape
  • protein folding
  • Folding@home, a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics.
• Aliasing#Folding, as used in signal processing

[edit] See also

• folder
• bifold door