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hard forks

hard forks is the plural of hard fork.

Meaning of hard fork

Noun

hard fork (plural hard forks)

  1. A rule change of a blockchain such that the software validating according to the old rules will see the blocks produced according to the new rules as invalid; the new blockchain resulting from such a split.
    • Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin.

Questions about hard forks

What is hard forks the plural of?
Hard forks is the plural of hard fork.

Words near hard forks in the dictionary

  1. hard fern
  2. hard float
  3. hard floats
  4. hard food
  5. hard fork
  6. hard forks
  7. hard freeze
  8. hard freezes
  9. hard g
  10. hard gainer
  11. hard gainers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hard forks (page history and authors); hard fork (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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