FORK (DISAMBIGUATION)

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.

★ Garden fork, a pronged tool designed for digging

★ 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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See also

See also

★ The Forks

★ Spork

★ Bifurcation

★ Forklift

★ Spooning (a form of cuddling), and its analog "forking"