fetch

Fetch may refer to:

• Fetch (geography), the length of water over which a given wind has blown
• Fetch (game), a game played between a human and a pet in which the human throws an object for the pet to retrieve
• Fetch (folklore), a doppelgänger or double in Irish folklore
• Fetch (album), a 2013 album by Melt-Banana
• Fetch (FTP client), a software FTP client
• Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, a children's animated television series
• Fetch-execute cycle, a typical sequence of computer machine actions

Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, sometimes shortened as Fetch!, is a children's television series that was on PBS Kids. It is a reality-game show that is hosted by an animated anthropomorphic dog named Ruff Ruffman who dispenses challenges to the show's real-life contestants. The series ran for five seasons and 100 episodes from May 29, 2006 to November 4, 2010 on PBS, with 30 contestants in that time. In June 2010, WGBH announced that the series would end due to lack of funding. In June 2008, the series received its first Emmy for Best Original Song for its theme.

Als Fetch (auch Windlauflänge oder Wirkweg) wird die Länge der Anlaufstrecke eines Windes über einer Wasserfläche bezeichnet.

Fetch puede hacer referencia a:

• Fetch, en el folclore irlandés, fantasma de una persona viva.
• Fetch, término para designar la longitud rectilínea de una gran masa de agua superficial.

Le fetch (terme anglais signifiant « l'ouvert », « l'étendue d'une baie ») est la distance en mer ou sur un plan d'eau au-dessus de laquelle souffle un vent donné sans rencontrer d'obstacle (une côte) depuis l'endroit où il est créé ou depuis une côte s'il vient de la terre.

In informatica ed elettronica il fetch o Instruction Fetch (dall'inglese, prendere, prelevare), è la prima delle tre fasi fondamentali dell'elaborazione sequenziale di un programma per calcolatori elettronici. Si tratta dell'astrazione procedurale di tutte quelle operazioni che portano al caricamento dell'istruzione da parte del microprocessore.