Fork (disambiguation)
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There are a number of things called forks:
- A fork, a tool or a piece of cutlery
- In computing:
- fork is a method of creating new processes
- A fork occurs when variations on the same piece of software or other work are split into two branches of development
- forks are parts of files in certain filesystems
- HFS supports, for each file, a separate resource fork and a data fork
- A place where one road (or a river) divides into two, without either of them clearly being a turn off the main route, is referred to as a "fork in the road". This term is also used as a figure of speech.
- A tuning fork is used in music
- A fork is a tactic used in chess
- Fork is a word for crotch.
- Fork is also a euphemism for fuck.
- The notion of a fork (in topology) presents a mathematical abstraction for many of the above instances.
- A bicycle fork is the part of a bicycle to which the front wheel is generally attached.
- Forks, Washington is a town in United States.
See also: spork, bifurcation
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