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Dock may refer to:

In transportation:

  • Dock (maritime), an area of water for building or repairing or loading and unloading ships or ferries
    • Wharf, a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, where ships are loaded and unloaded
    • Pier, a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars
    • Ferry slip, a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat
    • Pontoon, a buoyant device, may be used to support docks or floating bridges
    • Dry dock, a narrow basin that can be flooded and drained to allow a load to come to rest on a dry platform
    • Jetty
    • Stevedore, a worker who loads and unloads ships, also known as a docker or longshoreman
  • Loading dock, where trucks may be loaded and unloaded
  • Space rendezvous, if it includes docking

In natural sciences:

  • Molecular docking, a research technique for predicting whether one molecule will bind to another
  • Rumex, plants called docks and sorrels
  • Burdock, a group of biennial thistles

In computing:

Other:

See also


  • Dox, a supposed hybrid between a dog and a fox
  • DOC (disambiguation)

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