Fork (disambiguation)
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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 (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)