Fork (disambiguation)
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A fork is a utensil for eating and cooking.
Fork may 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.
- Fork (topology), a mathematical abstraction for many of the above instances.
- Forks, Washington, a town in the United States.
In computing:
- Fork (operating system), a method of creating 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.
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