Docking

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Docking may refer to:

In science and technology

  • Docking and berthing of spacecraft, the process of joining one spacecraft or space station module to another
  • Docking (molecular), a research technique for predicting the relative orientation of two molecules to each other
  • Docking@Home, a distributed computing project
  • Exscalate4Cov, a large-scale virtual screening experiment against COVID-19
  • Docking, a synonym for accretion in geology

Other uses

  • The act of securing a ship or boat to a dock
  • Docking (surname)
  • Docking, Norfolk, a village
  • Docking (animal), the practice of cutting off or trimming the tail of an animal
    • Docking (dog), the above practice as specifically applies to dogs
    • Docking, the similar mutilation of humans, e.g. as corporal punishment
  • Docking, the piercing of dough as it is manipulated, sometimes with a tool such as a Roller docker
  • Docking (sex), a sex act

See also

  • Dock (disambiguation)
  • Docker (disambiguation)
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