Fold, folding or foldable may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Fold (album), the debut release by Australian rock band Epicure
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Fold (poker), in the game of poker, to discard one's hand and forfeit interest in the current pot
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"Folded" (song), by Kehlani
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Above the fold and below the fold, the positioning of news items on a newspaper's front page according to perceived importance
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Paper folding, or origami, the art of folding paper
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology
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Protein folding, the physical process by which a polypeptide folds into its characteristic and functional three-dimensional structure
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Folding@home, a powerful distributed-computing project for simulating protein folding
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Fold coverage, quality of a DNA sequence
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Skin fold, an area of skin that folds
Computing
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Fold (higher-order function), a type of programming operation on data structures
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fold (Unix), a computer program used to wrap lines to fit in a specified width
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Folding (DSP implementation), a transformation technique using in DSP architecture implementation
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Folding (signal processing), an aspect of aliasing
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Folding editor, a text editor that supports text folding or code folding, allowing the user to hide and reveal blocks of text
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Case folding is the conversion of letter case in a string
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Constant folding, a compiler optimization technique
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Folding@home, a powerful distributed-computing project for simulating protein folding
Electronics
Other uses in science and mathematics
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Fold (geology), one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces that are bent or curved as a result of plastic deformation
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Folding (chemistry), the process by which a molecule assumes its shape or conformation
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Folding (Dynkin diagram), in Lie theory, a way of obtaining one Dynkin diagram from another
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Fold change, a measure of the difference between two quantities
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e-folding, exponential growth or decay
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Polygon folding, or polyhedron folding
Other uses
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Amicus Therapeutics, NASDAQ stock trading symbol FOLD
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Book folding, in book production
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Foldable smartphone, a smartphone with a folding form factor
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Folding bicycle, a bicycle designed to fold into a compact form
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Folding bridge, a bridge that can be folded, mainly to open for higher boats
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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
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Pen (enclosure), or sheep fold, a sheep pen in British English
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-fold, a feature in British toponymy
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Samsung Galaxy Fold, a smartphone
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Scottish Fold, a cat breed
See also
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Bend (disambiguation)
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Crease (disambiguation)
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Folder (disambiguation)