A fork is a utensil for eating and cooking.
Fork may also refer to:
Implements
- Broadfork, for breaking up the soil
- Garden fork, a pronged tool designed for digging
- Heretic's fork, a historical torture device
- Bicycle fork, the part of a bicycle to which the front wheel is attached
- Motorcycle fork, the portion of a motorcycle that holds the front wheel
- Tuning fork, a vibrating device used to tune musical instruments
- Pitchfork, a tined farm implement used to lift and pitch hay and perform other tasks
- Trident, a three-pronged spear-like weapon
- Winnowing fork, a tined implement used to throw mixtures of grain and chaff into windy air, and thus separate them
- Military fork, a pole weapon used in war between the 15th and 19th centuries
Topology
- a tributary of a river or other stream
- Fork (topology), a mathematical abstraction
- Forking extension in mathematical model theory
- 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
- Forked tongue, a natural bifurcation that occurs in some animals
In computing
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