Folding

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Fold may refer to:

• above the fold
• Sheepfold, an enclosure for sheep
• fold, a family of higher-order functions in functional computer programming
• fold, a program in the GNU Core Utilities
• fold catastrophe, one most basic objects in singularity theory.
• fold (geology)
• skin fold

Fold or folding may refer to:

• 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.
• folding, in poker, the act of withdrawing from a hand rather than meeting the bet
• Paper folding
  • origami, the art of paper folding
  • Mathematics of paper folding
• pattern welding, the folding of metal
• 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.
• bankruptcy
• aliasing
• 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.

[edit] See also

• folder
• bifold door

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