Folding

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

In 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, distributed-computing project for calculating 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

In computing:

Fold (higher-order function), a type of programming operation on data structures
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

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