Lock

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Lock(s) or locked may refer to:

Common meanings

• Lock, a mechanical fastening device
• Lock of hair, a piece of hair
• Lock (water navigation), a device for vessels to transit between different levels of water, as in a canal

Arts and entertainment

• Lock (film), a 2016 Indian Punjabi-language thriller
• Locked (film), a 2024 American thriller
• Locked (miniseries), a 2020 Indian Telugu-language crime thriller
• The Lock (Constable), an 1824 painting by John Constable
• The Lock (Fragonard) or The Bolt, a 1777 painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
• Locks (album), by Garnet Crow, 2008
• "Locked", a 1993 song by Mutha's Day Out
• "Locked", a song for the 2011 video game "Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy"
• Lock (waltz), a dance figure
• Lock (Saga of the Skolian Empire), a sentient machine in novels by Catherine Asaro
• LOCK, stage name of Rokka Asahi, a fictional character from BanG Dream!
• Lock, a character in the film The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Lock, a character in Go! Princess PreCure, a Japanese anime series

People

• Lock (surname)
• Ormer Locklear (1891–1920), American stunt pilot and film actor nicknamed "Lock"
• Lock Martin (1916–1959), stage name of American actor Joseph Lockard Martin, Jr.

Places

• Lock, South Australia, a small town
• Lock, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community
• Lock Island, in the River Thames in England
• Lock Island (Nunavut), Canada, an island

Sports

• Lock (rugby league), a player position
• Lock (rugby union), a player position
• Lock, any of several grappling holds in wrestling, judo and other martial arts

Computing

• Lock (computer science), a bookkeeping object used to serialize concurrent access
• Lock (database), a feature used when multiple users access a database concurrently
• Lock screen
• File locking, a mechanism that restricts access to a computer file
• SIM lock, a restriction on mobile phones to work only in certain countries or with certain providers

Other uses

• Lock (firearm), the ignition mechanism of small arms
• Lock (weapons guidance), a missile navigation system's target acquisition fix
• Fermentation lock, a device used in beer and wine making
• Rope lock, a device used in theater fly systems
• -lock, an Old English suffix

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Lock
• All pages with titles containing Lock
• Airlock, a compartment for transfer between environments with different atmospheres
• Loc (disambiguation)
• Lok (disambiguation)
• Loch, a Gaelic term for certain bodies of water
• Locke (disambiguation)
• LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a peer-to-peer network
• Lox, cured salmon filet
• Lock and Key (disambiguation)

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