Docking Explained

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)