Fork (disambiguation)

A fork is a utensil for eating and cooking.

Fork may also refer to:

Implements

• Fork (road), a type of intersection where a road splits
• Open fork mount, a type of Equatorial mount for telescopes
• Bicycle fork, (also known as a front fork), the part of a bicycle to which the front wheel is attached
• Bident, a two-pronged spear-like weapon
• Broadfork, for breaking up the soil
• Fork, holder of a caster
• Garden fork, a pronged tool designed for digging
• Military fork, a pole weapon used in war between the 15th and 19th centuries
• Motorcycle fork, the portion of a motorcycle that holds the front wheel
• Pitchfork, a tined farm implement used to lift and pitch hay and perform other tasks
• Trident, a three-pronged spear-like weapon
• Tuning fork, a vibrating device used to tune musical instruments
• Winnowing fork, a tined implement used to throw mixtures of grain and chaff into windy air, and thus separate them

Places

• Fork, Iran (disambiguation), several places in Iran

United States

• Fork, Maryland, a town
• Forks, Washington, a town
• Fork Township (disambiguation), several districts

Computing

• Fork (file system), a part of a file in certain filesystems
• Fork (software development), when a piece of software or other work is split into two branches or variations of development
• Fork (system call), the method whereby a running process creates a new process
• Fork bomb, a type of malware that creates many new processes
• Fork–join model, a way of designing and executing parallel computations
• Fork (blockchain), a split of the blockchain into two chains or a protocol change
• The Fork, an on-line restaurant booking system

Geography

• Fork, a tributary of a river or other stream
• Fork, a peninsula, often one of several adjacent ones

Science

• Forked tongue, a natural bifurcation that occurs in some animals
• Forking extension, in mathematical model theory

Other uses

• 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
• Morton's fork, a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives (in other words, a dilemma)
• Operation Fork, the invasion of Iceland by the British during World War II

See also

• Forq
• Bifurcation (disambiguation)
• Fork in the road (disambiguation)
• Forks (disambiguation)
• Furca (disambiguation) ("Fork" in Latin)
• The Forks (disambiguation)

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