folding
folding Lexical Profile
folding Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Capable of being folded into a smaller, more compact form for easy storage or transport.
"We set up several extra folding chairs in the living room to accommodate all the guests."
• noun
The action or process of bending something flexible over upon itself, or a pleat or crease resulting from this process.
"The careful folding of the paper is essential to creating an intricate origami crane."
In geology and biochemistry, the bending of rock strata under tectonic pressure or the three-dimensional coiling of a polypeptide chain into a functional protein structure.
"Researchers used computer simulations to predict the complex folding of the newly discovered protein."
• Rhymes for folding
Word Origin & Etymology
Formed from the Old English verb fealdan ('to fold, wrap up, or roll up') combined with the suffix -ing.