A fork is a utensil for eating and cooking (usually used with a Knife).
Fork may also refer to:
Implements[]
- Bicycle fork, the part of a bicycle to which the front wheel is attached
- Broadfork, for breaking up the soil
- Fork (road), a type of intersection where the road splits
- Garden fork, a pronged tool designed for digging
- Heretic's fork, a historical torture device
- 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
- Pallet forks - Forks used to lift pallets with a forklift other loaders
- 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
Vehicles[]
Shorttend name used to refer to machinery used to move palletised loads;
- Forklift truck
- Telescopic handler fitted with pallet forks.
In computing[]
- Fork (operating system), a method of creating new processes
- Fork bomb, a type of malware that creates many new processes
- Fork (software development), when a piece of software or other work is split into two branches or variations of development
Places[]
- Fork, Maryland, a town in the United States
- Forks, Washington, a town in the United States
- Fork Township (disambiguation), several districts in the United States
In science[]
- A tributary of a river or other stream
- Forked tongue, a natural bifurcation that occurs in some animals
In culture[]
- 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), or two lines of reasoning that lead to the same unpleasant conclusion
See also[]
- Bifurcation (disambiguation)
- Fork in the road (disambiguation)
- Forks (disambiguation)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Content forking
- wikipedia:Operation Fork, the invasion of Iceland by the British during WWII