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Text folding is now a redirect to [[folding editor]]
'''Fold''' may refer to:
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*[[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 programming|functional computer programming]]
**[[Fold (Unix)]], a program in the [[GNU Core Utilities]]
'''Fold''' or '''folding''' may refer to:
{{Wiktionary}}
*[[Betting (poker)#Fold|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 folding|code]] or text folding (as in a [[folding editor]] for folding code or text)
**In [[functional language]]s [[Fold (higher-order function)|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
==See also==
* [[folder]]
* [[door|bifold door]]
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