from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding chair, etc.
- n. The action of folding; a fold.
- n. The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
- n. Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
- n. the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
- n. Paper money, as opposed to coins.
- v. Present participle of fold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.
- n. The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fold; a double.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. capable of being folded up and stored
- n. a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- n. the process whereby a protein molecule assumes its intricate three-dimensional shape
- n. the act of folding
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Correct folding is important, Pace said, because "many diseases are protein folding diseases," including Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease and cystic fibrosis.
Simulating protein folding is often considered a "holy grail" of computational biology, he added.
"One reason that protein folding is so difficult to simulate is that it occurs amazingly fast," Pande explained.
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But since such a folding is the goal of Kantian aesthetics in the first place, and nontranscendental ways of conceiving the relation between contingency and form are available, second-tier transcendentalism often looks as though it were motivated by the desire to preserve first-tier transcendentalism. close window
I developed an algorithm which I call a folding algorithm.
Availble in folding or fixed-blade models, Benchmade's new Water Knives beg to be stowed in your boat in tackle box.
– "The president folds his toilet paper ... all americans should be crumplers, folding is socialism."
The impression I have of the folding is that the top edge of the lace is simply sewn onto the backing in a zigzag, from one side to the other and back again.
All gluing and folding is held together during this project, with clothespins until it dries.