• for ships, the use of a Dock
  Dock (maritime)
  A dock is a human-made structure or group of structures involved in the handling of boats or ships, usually on or close to a shore.However, the exact meaning varies among different variants of the English language...
  
  , e.g. mooring or drydocking.
• Spacecraft
  Space rendezvous
  A space rendezvous is an orbital maneuver during which two spacecraft, one of which is often a space station, arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance . Rendezvous requires a precise match of the orbital velocities of the two spacecraft, allowing them to remain at a constant...
  
   docking, the process of joining one spacecraft
  Spacecraft
  A spacecraft or spaceship is a craft or machine designed for spaceflight. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, earth observation, meteorology, navigation, planetary exploration and transportation of humans and cargo....
  
   or space station
  Space station
  A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing...
  
   module to another.
• Docking (animal)
  Docking (animal)
  Docking is a term for the intentional removal of part of an animal's tail or ears. The term cropping is also used, though more commonly in reference to the cropping of ears, while docking more commonly—but not exclusively—refers to the tail. The term tailing is also commonly used...
  
  , the practice of trimming the tail of an animal.
  • Docking (dog), the above practice as specifically applies to dogs.
  • similar maiming of humans, e.g. corporal punishment
• Dock (computing)
  Dock (computing)
  The Dock is a prominent feature of the graphical user interface of the Mac OS X operating system. It is used to launch applications and switch between running applications...
  
  , a user interface component that provides a user a way of launching and switching between applications.
• Docking (molecular)
• Docking, Norfolk
  Docking, Norfolk
  Docking is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk and contains the highest point in North West Norfolk.It covers an area of and had a population of 1,150 in 469 households as of the 2001 census....
  
  , a Norfolk village
• The piercing of dough as it is manipulated, sometimes with a tool such as a Roller docker
  Roller docker
  A roller docker, rolling docker, dough docker or simply docker is a food preparation utensil that looks like a small rolling pin with spikes, or like a small rotary tiller. It is used to pierce bread dough, cracker dough, pizza dough or pastry dough to prevent over rising or blistering...
  
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• Docking (sex), a sex act.

• Docking@Home
  Docking@Home
  Docking@Home is a distributed computing project hosted by the University of Delaware and running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing software platform. It models protein-ligand docking using the CHARMM program. The ultimate aim is the development of new pharmaceutical...
  
  , a distributed computing project

People

• Jonothan Docking, Australian rugby league footballer.
• George Docking
  George Docking
  George Docking was the 35th Governor of Kansas, .Docking was elected to two terms as governor, but failed to win against Republican candidate John Anderson, Jr. in part because of his stance on the death penalty. He was known to say "I just don't like killing people." Was a delegate to the 1960...
  
   and his son Robert Docking
  Robert Docking
  Robert Blackwell Docking, , was the 38th Governor of Kansas from 1967 until 1975.Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Docking attended public school in Lawrence, Kansas, before attending the University of Kansas, and served in the Air Force during World War II...
  
  , politicians in the U.S. state of Kansas.