Folding in a sentence as a noun

HN should treat the folding as a signal similar to a down vote on that particular sub-thread.

5' folding table next to the foldout couch two very kind University of Houston students let me sleep on all year.

They're talking about folding bikes and multimodal commuting.

It's just like any other mediocre programming job, but your office is a folding table under a decommissioned fume hood.

Traditional map folding allows you to reference a portion of the map without unfolding it entirely.

Folding in a sentence as an adjective

It was basically a side-by-side email client by look, yet acted like it was folding proteins or mining bitcoin in some worker thread.

I'm sure it'd be harder to get funding for something as unsexy as, say, protein folding than it would be for creating a social network for cats and that really is sad.

We can gamify protein folding because this is a well-understood, well-characterized problem.

Minor nitpick, given the author's stress of not comparing apples to oranges I think the motivating anecdote on protein folding struck a dissonant cord.

I had a far more interesting and engaging introduction to algorithms on the first day of my class using paper airplane folding instructions as an example of how literally computers interpreted your instructions.

Folding definitions

noun

the process whereby a protein molecule assumes its intricate three-dimensional shape; "understanding protein folding is the next step in deciphering the genetic code"

noun

a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock

See also: fold

noun

the act of folding; "he gave the napkins a double fold"

See also: fold

adjective

capable of being folded up and stored; "a foldaway bed"

See also: foldable foldaway