- Fork (disambiguation)
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fork is a utensil for eating and cooking.Fork may also refer to:
*Pitchfork , a tined farm implement used to lift hay and perform other tasks
*Tuning fork , a vibrating device used to tune musical instruments
*Fork (chess) , a situation in chess where one piece simultaneously attacks two or more opposing pieces, usually resulting in the loss of an enemy piece
*Bicycle fork , the part of a bicycle to which the front wheel is generally attached
*Motorcycle fork , the portion of a motorcycle that holds the front wheel
*Garden fork , a pronged tool designed for digging
*Broadfork , for breaking up the soil
*Heretic's fork , a historical torture device
*Fork (topology) , a mathematical abstraction
*Forking extension in mathematical model theory
*Fork (road) , a type of intersection
*Forked tongue s, a natural bifurcation that occurs in some animals
*Forks, Washington , a town in the United States
*Fork Township
*Trident In computing:
*Fork (operating system) , a method of creating new processes
*Fork bomb , a type of malware that creates many new processes
*Fork (software development) , when a piece of software or other work is split into two branches or variations of development
*Fork (filesystem) , a part of a file in certain filesystems:"See also:
The Forks (disambiguation page)"
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