Folding vs Convolution - What's the difference?
folding | convolution |
Designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.
The action of folding; a fold.
* Addison
* 2007 , Greg Patent, ?Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey
The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
(computing, programming) : a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
(geology) the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
(slang) Paper money, as opposed to coins.
* 1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 123:
Something that is folded or twisted.
Any of the folds on the surface of the brain.
The shape of something rotating; a vortex.
(mathematics) A form of moving average.
(computing) A function which maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples.
As nouns the difference between folding and convolution
is that folding is the action of folding; a fold while convolution is something that is folded or twisted.As an adjective folding
is designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.As a verb folding
is present participle of lang=en.folding
English
(wikipedia folding)Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- The lower foldings of the vest.
- Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.
- He has written twelve of these fat sex and sword-play historical novels and every damn one of them has been on the best-seller lists. He must have made plenty of the folding .