Folding

Fold, folding or foldable may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Fold (album), the debut release by Australian rock band Epicure
 * Fold (poker), in the game of poker, to discard one's hand and forfeit interest in the current pot
 * Above the fold and below the fold, the positioning of news items on a newspaper's front page according to perceived importance
 * Paper folding, or origami, the art of folding paper

Biology

 * Protein folding, the physical process by which a polypeptide folds into its characteristic and functional three-dimensional structure
 * Folding@home, a powerful distributed-computing project for simulating protein folding
 * Fold coverage, quality of a DNA sequence
 * Skin fold, an area of skin that folds

Computing

 * Fold (higher-order function), a type of programming operation on data structures
 * fold (Unix), a computer program used to wrap lines to fit in a specified width
 * Folding (DSP implementation), a transformation technique using in DSP architecture implementation
 * Folding (signal processing), an aspect of aliasing
 * 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
 * Constant folding, a compiler optimization technique
 * Folding@home, a powerful distributed-computing project for simulating protein folding

Electronics

 * Foldable display
 * Flexible display

Other uses in science and mathematics

 * 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
 * Folding (Dynkin diagram), in Lie theory, a way of obtaining one Dynkin diagram from another
 * Fold change, a measure of the difference between two quantities
 * e-folding, exponential growth or decay
 * Polygon folding, or polyhedron folding

Other uses

 * Amicus Therapeutics, NASDAQ stock trading symbol FOLD
 * Book folding, in book production
 * Foldable smartphone, a smartphone with a folding form factor
 * Folding bicycle, a bicycle designed to fold into a compact form
 * Folding bridge, a bridge that can be folded, mainly to open for higher boats
 * 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
 * Pen (enclosure), or sheep fold, a sheep pen in British English
 * -fold, a feature in British toponymy
 * Samsung Galaxy Fold, a smartphone
 * Scottish Fold, a cat breed