Fork (disambiguation)

Fork (disambiguation)

A 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 tongues, 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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