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A fork is a utensil for eating and cooking. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Assorted forks. ...

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: A pitchfork next to a compost bin Pitching hay A pitchfork is a tool with a long handle and long, thin, widely separated pointed tines (also called prongs) used to lift and throw loose material, such as hay, leaves, grapes, or other agricultural products. ... A tuning fork is a simple metal two-pronged fork with the tines formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic material (usually steel). ... The white knight is forking the black king and rook. ... bicycle fork A bicycle fork is the portion of a bicycle that holds the front wheel and allows one to steer. ... 1968 BMW R60US with conventional telescopic fork Yamahas inverted telescopic fork The worlds first oil-damped telescopic fork, on a 1939 BMW R12 Trailing link fork on a 1928 BMW R57 Unusual trailing bottom link on a Honda Rune Earles front forks on three BMWs BMW Telelever fork... The notion of a fork appears in the characterization of graphs, including network topology, and topological spaces. ... Forks is a city in Clallam County, Washington, United States. ...

• 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.

A fork, when applied to computing is when a process creates a copy of itself, which then acts as a child of the original process, now called the parent. More generally, a fork in a multithreading environment means that a thread of execution is duplicated. ... In software engineering, a project fork or branch happens when a developer (or a group of them) takes a copy of source code from one software package and starts to independently develop a new package. ... In computing, a fork is additional data associated with a file system object. ...

See also

• The Forks
• Spork
• Bifurcation

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