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Fold or folding may refer to:

Paper folding
Paper folding
Paper craft is the collection of art forms employing paper or card as the primary artistic medium for the creation of three-dimensional objects. It is the most widely used material in arts and crafts. It lends itself to a wide range of techniques, it can for instance be folded, cut, glued,...

, the art of folding paper
Book folding
Book folding
Book folding is the stage of the book production process in which the pages of the book are folded after printing and before binding.Until the middle 19th century, book folding was done by hand, and book folder was a trade...

, in book production
Skin fold
Skin fold
Skin folds are areas of skin where it folds. Many skin folds are distinct, heritable anatomical features, and may be used for identification of animal species, while others are non-specific and may be produced either by individual development of an organism or by arbitrary application of force to...

, 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)
Fold (album)
Fold was the debut release by Australian rock band Epicure. It was issued on 7 August 2000.-Track listing:# "Calm"# "Feet From Under Me"# "Johnny Venus"# "Son Shine"# "Bottom Of A Well"# "Lights Out!"# "Fly The Flag"# "Opportunity's Knocking"...

, the debut release by Australian rock band Epicure

In science:

Fold (geology)
Fold (geology)
The term fold is used in geology when one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, are bent or curved as a result of permanent deformation. Synsedimentary folds are those due to slumping of sedimentary material before it is lithified. Folds in rocks vary in...

, one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces that are bent or curved as a result of plastic deformation
Folding (chemistry)
Folding (chemistry)
In chemistry, folding is the process by which a molecule assumes its shape or conformation. The process can also be described as intramolecular self-assembly where the molecule is directed to form a specific shape through noncovalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonding, metal coordination,...

, the process by which a molecule assumes its shape or conformation
- Protein folding
  Protein folding
  Protein folding is the process by which a protein structure assumes its functional shape or conformation. It is the physical process by which a polypeptide folds into its characteristic and functional three-dimensional structure from random coil....
  
  , the physical process by which a polypeptide folds into its characteristic and functional three-dimensional structure
- Folding@home
  Folding@home
  Folding@home is a distributed computing project designed to use spare processing power on personal computers to perform simulations of disease-relevant protein folding and other molecular dynamics, and to improve on the methods of doing so...
  
  , 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)
Fold (higher-order function)
In functional programming, fold – also known variously as reduce, accumulate, compress, or inject – are a family of higher-order functions that analyze a recursive data structure and recombine through use of a given combining operation the results of recursively processing its...

, a type of programming operation on data structures
Folding editor
Folding editor
A folding editor is a text editor which supports text folding or code folding, a mechanism allowing the user to hide and reveal blocks of text—usually named...

, 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

See also